Making A Difference Quotes - Page 26

• You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Positive, Struggle, Fire

  Leymah Gbowee (2013). “Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War”, p.151, Beast Books

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• 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.

  Gena Showalter

  Paris, Differences, Wake Up

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• ...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.

  Bob Goff

  Land, Differences, Needs

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We stepped back and looked at the king of the gods, slumped in his chair snoring, and cradling his crook like a teddy bear. I placed the war flail across his lap, hoping it might make a difference—maybe complete his powers or something. No such luck. "Sick weasels," Ra muttered. "Behold," Sadie said bitterly. "the glorious Ra.

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, War, Differences

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• It's what you do right now that makes a difference.

  Mark Bowden

  Inspirational, Life, Differences

  "Fictional character: Struecker". "Black Hawk Down", www.imdb.com. December 18, 2001.

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• The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Kings, Hard Work, Opportunity

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• 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.

  Graham Greene

  Thinking, Differences, Strange

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!

  Brené Brown

  Differences, Want, Next

  "I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from 'What Will People Think?' to 'I Am Enough'". Book by Brené Brown, February 2007.

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• I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because it makes a difference. And when nobody cares, it makes you all mad inside and it makes you want to say things, tear up things, break things, get through the glass.

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Hurt, Glasses, Differences

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Believe, Differences, African American

  Marcus Samuelsson, Veronica Chambers (2012). “Yes, Chef: A Memoir”, p.248, Random House

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• Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Play, Differences

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• I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Differences, Speak

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.159, Macmillan

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• 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..." ♥

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Fate, Thinking

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• I don’t want to be Nephilim,” said Jace. “I want to be something else. Stronger, faster, better than human. But different. Not subservient to the Laws of an angel who couldn’t care less about us. Free.” He ran his hand through a curl of her hair. “I’m happy now, Clary. Doesn’t that make a difference?

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Hair, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.384, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Pete Wentz

  Running, Differences, Trying

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The stars were out in full, the crickets a little quieter. He had enjoyed talking to Allie and wondered what she'd thought about his life, hoping it would somehow make a difference, if it could.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Stars, Talking, Differences

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Generosity, Giving, Live For Today

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• ...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.

  Erlend Loe

  Stars, Thinking, Differences

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.45, Canongate Books

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

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Differences, Matter

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.400, Macmillan

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• Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

  Mark Batterson

  Taken, Creativity, Games

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• I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- never be helpless, never be sick, never be poor.

  Christina Dodd

  Thinking, Civilization, Differences

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• You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

  Colonel Sanders

  Motivational, Work, Passion

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

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• It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Business, Opportunity

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• There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Freedom, Integrity

  Elie Wiesel's Nobel Acceptance Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.

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