It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Interpretation
Making money is simple, but creating a meaningful impact is much harder.
This quote emphasizes the distinction between pursuing financial gain and making a lasting, positive impact in the world. While earning money can be straightforward, contributing to society and effecting real change requires effort, commitment, and often sacrifice.
In practice
This quote could inspire attendees at a charity event to focus on their contributions rather than their careers.
The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option
Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.
While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.
I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me.
I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.'
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to somebody else and tell them that they're the only one that can do it right. But when they're talking to you, you're always the 'Best Actor of Your Generation.'
Dear young people, do not be afraid of making decisive choices in life. Have faith; the Lord will not abandon you!
The world belongs to the energetic.
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
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