101 Quotes On Making A Difference
Making a difference is something that every one of us can do, regardless of our income, age, or location.
It doesn’t matter how big or small the impact; every effort has the potential to make a positive difference in our world.
Whether volunteering locally, donating to charitable organizations, raising awareness for a cause, or simply being kind to others, there are countless ways to make a difference.
It’s inspiring to see how people come together to create impactful change and can be equally rewarding for all involved and has the power to create positive change in our communities and beyond.
Regardless of the size, making a difference can impact lives in ways never thought possible.
Every person has something unique and special to contribute; no matter who you are, there is always an opportunity to make an impact.
It’s my hope that these quotes about making a difference will inspire you to take action and make a difference in our world.
Quotes On Making A Difference
We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in our hands to make a difference.
Nelson Mandela
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”
John F. Kennedy
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
If you cannot feed a hundred people, feed one.
Mother Teresa
Small acts of kindness can make a difference in other peoples lives more than we can imagine.
Catherine Pulsifer
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
Robert F. Kennedy
Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
The Dalai Lama
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jake Goodall
We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery, and out of conflict. Too often, we turn the other way because we think there’s nothing we can do.
Alicia Keys
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them.
John Piper
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
John F. Kennedy
By being kind, we have the power of making the world a happier place in which to live, or at least we greatly diminish the amount of unhappiness in it so as to make it a quite different world.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
Christine Todd Whitman
One Person Can Make A Difference Quotes
I believe I can make a positive difference in the world.
Mike – PositiveThinkingMind.com
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say it’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem, then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
Fred Rogers
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara De Angelis
It’s not about what I SEE for our future, or humanity; It’s about what I DO for our future and humanity.
Steve Maraboli
To make a difference in people lives, help them, build them up, care and be there for them, give people confidence in themselves, teach people to love who they are.
Mike – PositiveThinkingMind.com
To make a difference in someone’s life, you don’t have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful, or perfect. You just have to care enough and be there.
Anonymous
We need to know that we make a positive difference through the work we do.
Mike Anderson
Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.
Amy Leigh Mercree
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little, do what you can.
Sydney Smith
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
There is no greater reward than working from your heart, and making a difference in the world.
Carlos Santana
No matter how small you may feel you make a big difference in this world.
Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are enough.
Germany Kent
There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it.
Amanda Gorman
Never underestimate the valuable and important difference you make in every life you touch for the impact you make today has a powerful rippling effect on every tomorrow.
Leon Brown
Believe with all your heart that how you live your life makes a difference.
Colin Brown
Make a difference, not just a living.
Anonymous
By becoming a mentor, you will touch the life of a child, make a difference for tomorrow’s youth, and give back to your community by investing in a young person who will, in turn, mentor the next generation.
Thomas Dortch
Together We Can Make A Difference Quotes
You do only live once, and I feel like if I’m able to make a difference on this planet and make it just a little better than I found it, then I’ve done my job.
Bindi Irwin
Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world.
Bono
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
Mother Teresa
Don’t chase success. Decide to make a difference and success will find you.
Jon Gordon
There is no greater joy, nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.
Mary Rose McGeady
Always try to make a difference in people’s lives.
Mike – PositiveThinkingMind.com
What makes a difference in one person’s life or in hundreds of lives is not merely a stack of checks; what makes a difference is you contributing your many gifts at your level and your capacity.
Kathy LeMay
When you believe in what you’re doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
Samuel Dash
When you see something that is not just, not fair, or not right, you have to do something. You have to say something. Make a little noise. It’s time for us to get into good trouble, necessary trouble.
John Lewis
You may find that making a difference for others makes the biggest difference in you.
Brian Williams
When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life.
Zig Ziglar
Knowing your purpose on earth is simple, but the task here is to bring about the success of your destiny.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Great leaders don’t set out to be a leader, they set out to make a difference. it’s never about the role, always about the goal.
Jeremy Bravo
We won’t always know whose lives we touched and made better for our having cared, because actions sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What’s important is that you do care and you act.
Charlotte Lunsford
It is our job to make a difference and leave the world a better place.
Karol G.
Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people’s lives.”
Tim Tebow
Anybody can make a difference and be voice for the voiceless.
Zach Hunter
If you want to make a difference, think different.
Palle Oswald
You don’t need to come from wealth or privilege to make a difference.
Joni Ernst
When you retire you can make a big difference in the lives of others by giving your time to help those in need.
Catherine Pulsifer
Make a difference in someone’s life every day. It does make a difference. Everyone has the ability to make a difference. It doesn’t take much to give someone encouragement. The wheel always comes full circle, and whatever we give out will always return to us. The most meaningful acts are often the ones we commit without prompting or expectations. We have such profound power when we lend an ear, a hand, or an act of kindness.
Angie Karan
Quotes About Making A Difference In The Lives Of Others
I want to make a difference in people’s lives, help them build confidence and believe in themselves.
Mike – PositiveThinkingMind.com
We can’t just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a world of hurt and fear. And we have to work to dig it out so we can share it with our family, our friends, and our neighbors.
Dolly Parton
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
Barbara Mikulski
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
You may find that making a difference for others makes the biggest difference in you.
Brian Williams
Joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness.
Matthew Kelly
If your presence doesn’t make an impact, your absence won’t make a difference.”
Trey Smith
We can ALWAYS make a difference to someone, no matter what role we play.
Lindsey Sterling
Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
Marian Wright Edelman
Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.
Ken Blanchard
One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want.
Zig Zaglar
We all owe everyone for everything that happens in our lives. But it’s not owing like a debt to one person- it’s really that we owe everyone for everything. Our whole lives can change in an instance- so each person who keeps that from happening, no matter how small a role they play, is also responsible for all of it. Just by giving friendship and love, you keep the people around you from giving up – and each expression of friendship or love may be the one that makes all the difference.
Will Schwalbe
Each of us can make a difference. It doesn’t have to be anything spectacular. Keep the neighbor’s kid while she goes to the store or to the doctor, or befriend somebody in need. I don’t mean you have to take them into your home, but you can find a place for them to stay or see that they get food. You can do an act of kindness every single solitary day, because it’s needed.
Opal Lee
To make a difference in the world, it only takes one optimistic person, who can gather millions of people to make the change.
Gia Russell
To whoever you initiate contact with and wherever, try to leave a positive impression. To whoever you have the power to make smile, exploit that power as often and best as you can, because when every other material thing fades, it’s those memories that keep us alive
Ufuoma Apoki
Never underestimate the valuable and important difference you make in every life you touch for the impact you make today has a powerful rippling effect on every tomorrow.
Leon Brown
It’s an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I – nor for that matter anyone else – will be interested in the unbosoming of a thirteen-year-old school-girl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.
Anne Frank
We can choose to be affected by the world or we can choose to affect the world.
Heidi Wills
I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what’s right for the people. I choose to make a difference.
Bill Richardson
Working Together To Make A Difference Quotes
You were born to make a difference, to contribute and to share your gifts with the world.
Darren Hardy
The abundant life begins from within and then moves outward to other individuals. If there is richness and righteousness in us, then we can make a difference in the lives of others, just as key individuals have influenced the lives of each of us for good and made us richer than we otherwise would have been.
Spencer W. Kimball
It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
Mahatma Gandhi
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
Each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so.
Dr. Cornel West
To make a difference in someone’s life, you don’t have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful, or perfect. You just have to care enough and be there.
Anonymous
But you can make a difference, everyone can do that too. May those who can use the help, receive what they ought to.
Julie Hebert
I think we forget sometimes how blessed we are to be able to help others and make a difference.
Gautam Rode
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
Jimmy Carter
Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes.
William Paul Young
Aim to make a difference in someone’s life every single day, including your own
Dow Zantamata
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa
You and I were put on this earth to serve something greater than our narrow interests. When our focus becomes self-centered instead of God-centered we lose our greatest source of power. Our God-given talents are meant to benefit others.
Nick Vujicic
Quotes About Making Things Better
Do it! What are you waiting on? Do it! Stand up for what you believe in. The world needs your voice. Whoever you are, you have something to say. Say it.
Kerry Washington
Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
Marian Wright Edelman
You can make a difference, wherever you are. It begins with a decision and defined purpose.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Go out and make a difference in your community. You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
Barbara Sher
The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart.
Mandy Hale
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
Want to get ahead? Make life easier for those around you.
Dan Rockwell
If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap.
Chinese Proverb
If you want happiness for a day – go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month – get married.
If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime – help others.
Magic happens when people are in the zone, when they can focus their creative energies on making a difference in the world. Positive things happen when they realize they can challenge and improve things that don’t work, even when the problem spans across the organization.
Mattias Skarin
So no matter what your age, keep yourself motivated by setting goals. By being active, by making a difference in others lives. Don’t think once you reach a certain age you can stop. Or don’t let your age make you feel that you have all the time in the world. None of us are guaranteed tomorrow. Make a difference today.
Catherine Pulsifer
We all have dreams… We all want to believe deep down in our souls that we have a special gift, that we can make a difference, that we can touch others in a special way, and that we can make the world a better place.
Tony Robbins