Quotes about Making A Difference

I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. Booker T. Washington

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

I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world’s deepest inequities…on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. Bill Gates

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

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life. Mary Rose McGeady

One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want. Zig Ziglar

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 from A Time for Giving, found on The Christmas Star

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Mother Teresa

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. Charles Dickens

Power is the ability to do good things for others. Brooke Astor

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

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference. Zig Ziglar

If there was ever a time to dare, to make a difference, to embark on something worth doing, IT IS NOW. Author Unknown

If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap.
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.
Chinese Proverb

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 I can do. Edward Everett Hale

One life can make a difference, You see, it's up to you! Author Unknown, from the poem Just One

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. Marian Wright Edelman

The truth is anyone can be the difference; all it takes is using whatever you have, to do whatever you can. Darius Graham

It takes ONE FAMILY to make a difference in this COMMUNITY. It takes ONE PERSON to make a difference in this FAMILY." Nisandeh Neta

The greatest success we’ll know is helping OTHERS succeed and grow. Gregory Scott Reid

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don’t have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn’t matter as much as how you do what you do. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Whether we go to work daily, develop our own business, or enter into or develop relationships with others, there are times when it is either necessary, or just a good strategy to do more than is required, or go the extra mile to make a difference. Byron Pulsifer, Extra-Mile The Speedometer of Life

The truth is anyone can be the difference; all it takes is using whatever you have, to do whatever you can. Darius Graham, Being The Difference

A small change can make a big difference. Catherine Pulsifer, Much To My Surprise