Making A Difference Quotations | Page 2

You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

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

Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in

To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.

What we mean by information the elementary unit of information is a difference which makes a difference, and it is able to make a difference because the neural pathways along which it travels and is continually transformed are themselves provided with energy. The pathways are ready to be triggered. We may even say that the question is already implicit in them.

Information consists of differences that make a difference.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

One of these days you're going to wake up," William finally said, "and I will have shaved you, Everywhere." (Paris) "Won't make a difference. Women will still want me.

The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved.

Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of the most daring, funny, morally engaged and brilliant writers, someone whose work truly makes a difference in the world. His prose is, for me, awareness objectified-he makes the word new and thus the world.

Heart is what makes a difference

The reason people come to work for GE, they want to be apart of something bigger than themselves, they want to work for a company that makes a difference, a company that is doing great things in the world.

Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

Having money might not buy happiness, but how you spend it could actually make a difference.

I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.

The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in establishments like the one the US represents.

I believe in getting a good education to be able to go out into the world and make a difference.

It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself with them either professionally or personally.

Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge

[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.

Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

Jim Rohn is the master motivator - he has style, substance, charisma, relevance, charm, and what he says makes a difference and it sticks. I consider Jim the 'Chairman of Speakers.' The world would be a better place if everyone heard my friend, Jim Rohn.

Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference.

I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.

The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference

Be like you and make a difference.

I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

I have a passion to make a difference in the world. And that difference can be just making the fans at my show leave with a smile on their faces and feeling uplifted.

Whatever you do, make a difference. Earn the right to look back at something and say, 'I did that.'

My focus is not on any one particular election or any one particular candidate. My focus is on the issues and policy that will make a difference expanding opportunity.

I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.

All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth that's there, we're always trying to bust through that. So when I see a disease outbreak, I say to myself, "OK, that'll get people realizing how lucky we are to have vaccines."

The difference between both is that social entrepreneurship has a much more financial transparency. There is no financial viability and that is where a corporate sector makes a difference because we maintain a balance between both the financial status and the social service.

There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a proper living and really does make a difference to people's lives. Then I do feel a bit of a wanker, admitting I'm an actress. That's hard to say to someone who may be making a difference. But I don't know how I could change things.

When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.

If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.

The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.

The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.

No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.

We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.

Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.

One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

You can’t go back. Can’t fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference.” She pushed away from the desk, cupped his face in her hands. “From where I’m standing, you’re the best step I ever took.

Each of us has a responsibility for the sustainability of our planet and each of us can make a difference if we choose to do so.

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

I expected to be in the big leagues soon. I didn't know exactly how soon, but I wanted to be here soon, and I wanted to make a difference soon.

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

Having a bunch of medals and badges doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve achieved anything, you’ve got to do something beyond yourself to make a difference in life. Seek to be consequential in whatever you do.

I am about to stop being a get-along kind of guy and turn into somebody who makes a difference.

Treat employees like they make a difference and they will

In a lot of close games, I can make a difference with my speed.

Spend your energy on things that make a difference.

The cumulative effect of each person making a change in his or her own life will make a difference.

Go on... make a difference.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference, ... It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.

We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is going on; one result is just as good as another, since each is just something to look at. The latter is bound up with what is going on; its outcome makes a difference to him.

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.

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

Not to sound cliché or anything, but with the downtime that I have and the possible platform that my work could give me, I'd like to figure out a way to give back and make a difference, you know?

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.

You cannot make a difference unless you're different.

I didn't come to stay. I came to make a difference.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

I just want to be the biggest artist that I can be, and I want to make a difference. I feel like Michael (Jackson) made a difference with everything that he did. He was so charitable and just always on-point. I just want to be where he is, as an artist.

If i can do just one tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, i can really make a difference in this world

I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.

there’s really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn’t make a difference because I’d just be running from myself, and you can’t do that no matter how hard you try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.

Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.

When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.

It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference.

Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

We've been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all to prefer fitting in with the right people

One person really can make a difference.

You need to feel that you're making a difference.

I think my experience is going to make a difference, but I also think that my speed and power are going to make a bigger difference.

Complaining doesn't make a difference; it's useless and it's wasted energy.

If you create something that makes a difference in people's lives, you are likely to become a business success as well

Don't think about making money, think about making a difference, spot where others are doing it badly and do it better