One Person Can Make A Difference Quotes

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

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Bullying, Morning

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  Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Life, Determination

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  What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

  Jane Goodall

  Life, Strong Women, Differences

  "Inspire Her Feature: Olivia R. Colombo". Interview with Briana Berger, www.codergirls.org. June 19, 2017.

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

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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, Making A Difference, Charity

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

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

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  The Lorax (1971)

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• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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  person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You
  don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in
  your power to change things.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Differences, Making A Difference, Have Faith

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• If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

  Anita Roddick

  Women, Believe, Differences

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• One person can make a difference. In fact, its not only possible for one person to make a difference, its essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

  Bob Riley

  Believe, Differences, Making A Difference

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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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  I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Differences, Doubt, Making A Difference

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• 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.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Hope, Courage

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

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

  Edmund Burke

  Making A Difference, Charity, Littles

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• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Smile, Justice, Making A Difference

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• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "Women of Faith and Spirit: Their Words & Thoughts". Book edited by Dayna Beilenson and Mary Alice Warner, p. 42, 1987.

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• we are the ones we have been waiting for

  Alice Walker

  Change, Confidence, Life Changing

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

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