You Can Make A Difference Quotes

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

You have a lot of children that come up to you... and their parents tell you, and sometimes even [the children themselves] tell you how much they love singing your nasheeds. It is a great source of satisfaction that even now you can make a difference in the lives of people.

Find ways to embrace the things that make you unique, and you'll unlock the ways you can make a difference in the world.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like fate, and fate usually came in the form of a test. He told me fate liked to be worshiped. It liked to see us fall on out knees before it offered to help us up..." ♥

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It’s fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today.

That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your energies in time. You're not likely to live by equations.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference - one that looks like it would be fun - and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this just about everywhere in the company.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

My parents were my first bosses - they gave me my moral compass, goals, and first recognition. My dad worked 25 years for Rolls Royce in England. He taught me the value of working someplace where you can make a difference - not chasing money but doing work that you found purposeful.

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.

Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place.

Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.

If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

Know that you can make a difference in the world by being true to yourself, and moving in the direction of your dreams!

You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

I feel like you have to use your energy, you have to use your resources to help those who don't have a voice. Whereas back in the day, you could say, "I didn't know about this. What was I supposed to do? One person can't make a difference." No, like, none of that's valid. You can make a difference, and you do have a voice.

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through... You can make a difference in this world.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

One person can make a difference.

You'd better make sure that you know you can make a difference, and if it's a difference you want to make, is there another way to do the same thing, and what's the down side? What's the repercussions if I do this? To my career, to my family, whatever else.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The best advice I ever got was from Lee Iacocca.... It was get into a business where you can be a big fish, not the little fish. Get into a business where you can be a change agent, where you can make a difference.

Believe that you can make a difference; in fact, you do with every single choice you make. Your money is your power and each time you spend it, it's a vote for something, so make it count. I personally live and work by this African Proverb - If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

I'm always satisfied with going to soup kitchens or homeless shelters. A big one for me is children's hospitals. I love spending time with kids, rooting for them, making them laugh. Any small act of kindness is just as important as a donation. So volunteer. Go out there and see how you can make a difference and help someone.

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.