Making A Difference Quotes - Page 30

• 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.

  Paula Broadwell

  Mean, Differences, Badges

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• Believe with all your heart that how you live your life makes a difference

  Colin Beavan

  Believe, Heart, Differences

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• Missions is God finding those whose hearts are right with Him and placing them where they can make a difference for His kingdom

  Henry Blackaby

  Christian, Heart, Differences

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• Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.

  Michael Treanor

  Inspirational, Life, Differences

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• Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else's isn't.

  Kid Cudi

  Live Life, Differences, Choices

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• I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time.

  Chuck Jones

  Ivory Tower, Voice, Differences

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• Social Security is a solemn promise to kupuna like my 88-year-old mother that they can rely on the retirement they've earned. While I'm glad to see our seniors receive an increase for the second year in a row, I wish the cost-of-living adjustment could be larger. However, every little bit helps make a difference in these tough economic times.

  Mazie Hirono

  Senior, Mother, Retirement

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• Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Differences, Break

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.7, Penguin

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• True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return.

  Deborah Barnes

  Self Esteem, Passion, Simple

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• I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

  Christopher Darden

  School, Law, Differences

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• You must become a climate champion, a single-issue voter. You must take whatever action you can. You must use whatever influence you have wherever it would make a difference, even if it is only to educate the people around you.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Differences, Issues, People

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• I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

  Bill Richardson

  Inspirational, Courage, Differences

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and say there's nothing beyond nature. Rather, it says that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order.

  William A. Dembski

  Atheist, Believe, Self

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• Information is a difference that makes a difference.

  Gregory Bateson

  Differences, Information

  1984 Quoted in Scientific American, no.41, Sep.

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

  Peter Senge

  Change, Peace, Heart

  Peter Senge, C. Scharmer (2011). “Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society”, p.29, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Make A Difference Day is a great way to introduce kids to the rewards of volunteering. It's fun, it's focused and it's empowering to know that millions are motivated to do the same.

  Kate Snow

  Fun, Kids, Differences

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• What if more women, mothers, gave birth as an ecstatic celebration of female sexuality? Mothers who do will often declare, "Now I can do anything!" What would the world look like if half of our population felt empowered to make a difference with their lives?

  Jeannine Parvati Baker

  Mother, Differences, Empowerment

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• A lot of people don't believe in curses.
  A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.

  Louis Sachar

  Believe, Yellow, Differences

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.41, Yearling

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• Go out into the world, find work that you love, learn from your mistakes, and work hard to make a difference.

  Maurice R. Greenberg

  Mistake, Hard Work, Differences

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• A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Fun, Writing, Adventure

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• A man can't ask for much more than the chance to make a difference in his chosen field of work. Politics is my vocation. I'm forever grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this great country of ours. I know I am a better person for it.

  Jean Chretien

  Country, Grateful, Opportunity

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful.

  Nick Saban

  Team, Successful, Differences

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• 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.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Differences, Looks

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.128, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?

  Peter Drucker

  Differences

  "Peter Drucker On Leadership". Interview with Rich Karlgaard, www.forbes.com. November 19, 2004.

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• Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, Differences, Leader

  "'What Needs to Be Done', Peter Drucker On Leadership". Interview with Rich Karlgaard in Forbes magazine, November 19, 2004.

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