Quotes on Making A Difference

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

One person can and does make a difference.

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

Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!

The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up.

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.