Making A Difference Quotes - Page 2

• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational Sports

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• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Money, Generosity

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

  John Wesley

  Life, Motivational, Christmas

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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• 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.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Peace, Women

  Marian Wright Edelman (1987). “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

  Christine Todd Whitman

  Fall, Thinking, Differences

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• See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

  Robert Breault

  World, Causes, Helping

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• We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Simple, Differences

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.162, Pan Macmillan

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

  Maurice Strong

  Acceptance, Differences, Pathways

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• Being willing is not enough. We must do.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

  Lucy Larcom

  Inspirational, Adversity, Caring

  LUCY LARCOM (1869). “POEMS”, p.186

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• Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Differences

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• The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Business, Men, Water

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.206

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• Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Differences, Doubt, That One Person

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• When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

  Eleanora Duse

  Regret, Enough, Given

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• Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Challenges

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.62, Penguin

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• 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.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Grace, Charity, Sustainability

  "Personal Quote/ Did you know?". www.imdb.com.

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  You change the world by being yourself.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Change, Being Yourself

  Twitter post from Feb 15, 2013

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• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

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  Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Inspiring, Karma, Good Life

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

  Carl Jung

  Change, Acceptance, Thoughtful

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