You Can Make A Difference Quotes - Page 2

• Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Helping Others, Greatness

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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• Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.

  Anne Sweeney

  Inspirational, Believe, Differences

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• I'm always satisfied with going to soup kitchens or homeless shelters. A big one for me is children's hospitals. I love spending time with kids, rooting for them, making them laugh. Any small act of kindness is just as important as a donation. So volunteer. Go out there and see how you can make a difference and help someone.

  Ashley Benson

  Kindness, Kids, Volunteer

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• My parents were my first bosses - they gave me my moral compass, goals, and first recognition. My dad worked 25 years for Rolls Royce in England. He taught me the value of working someplace where you can make a difference - not chasing money but doing work that you found purposeful.

  Adrian Gostick

  Dad, Goal, Boss

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 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.

  John Calipari

  Careers, Differences, Making A Difference

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• You have a lot of children that come up to you... and their parents tell you, and sometimes even [the children themselves] tell you how much they love singing your nasheeds. It is a great source of satisfaction that even now you can make a difference in the lives of people.

  Junaid Jamshed

  Children, Differences, People

  Source: irusa.org

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• I feel like you have to use your energy, you have to use your resources to help those who don't have a voice. Whereas back in the day, you could say, "I didn't know about this. What was I supposed to do? One person can't make a difference." No, like, none of that's valid. You can make a difference, and you do have a voice.

  Lilly Singh

  Voice, Differences, Making A Difference

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The best advice I ever got was from Lee Iacocca.... It was get into a business where you can be a big fish, not the little fish. Get into a business where you can be a change agent, where you can make a difference.

  Marcus Lemonis

  Differences, Advice, Big Fish

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• To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.

  Susan Sarandon

  Helping Others, Simple, Differences

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

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• If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

  Emily Blunt

  Struggle, Simple, Differences

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• Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.

  Salma Hayek

  Art, Jobs, Ideas

  "Salma on Her Lifesaving Work (and Brand-New Baby)". Interview with Eve Ensler, www.glamour.com. March 2, 2008.

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• Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It’s fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Fun, Fighting

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• I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Inspirational, Success, Jobs

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• There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference - one that looks like it would be fun - and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this just about everywhere in the company.

  Jack Welch

  Fun, Thinking, Differences

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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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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• Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Kids, Differences, Feelings

  Alastair Reynolds (2006). “Century Rain”, p.84, Penguin

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• Believe that you can make a difference; in fact, you do with every single choice you make. Your money is your power and each time you spend it, it's a vote for something, so make it count. I personally live and work by this African Proverb - If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.

  Lizzie Borden

  Believe, Sleep, Thinking

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• To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.

  Betty Williams

  Kindness, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Know that you can make a difference in the world by being true to yourself, and moving in the direction of your dreams!

  Judy Davis

  Dream, Moving, Differences

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• That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your energies in time. You're not likely to live by equations.

  Ruby Dee

  Inspirational, Thinking, Differences

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

  Dan Miller

  Unique, Differences, Making A Difference

  Dan Miller, Jared Angaza (2012). “Wisdom Meets Passion: When Generations Collide and Collaborate”, p.44, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

  Samuel Dash

  Believe, Differences, Imagination

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• I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Believe, Differences, Community

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• Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Leadership, Fighting, Differences

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• Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

  Bill Walton

  Inspirational, Basketball, Opportunity

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