Quotes on Making A Difference

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

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

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.

If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team in Washington. Believe me, your ideas count. An individual can make a difference.

The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.

As the young leaders of tomorrow, you have the passion and energy and commitment to make a difference. What I'd like to really urge you do is to have a global vision. Go beyond your country; go beyond your national boundaries

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

...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.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

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

Why we are here is important, but to know where we are going is imperative. It's not what you've got, it's what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out.

Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I've pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.

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.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

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

Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.