Making A Difference Quotes

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

Do Something!I was sitting on a plane after a long, tiring business trip. I was a bit grouchy and irritable because the rigorous schedule I had made for myself left me exhausted. Looking to not talk to the person next to me and simply endure the flight, I decided to open my newspaper and read about what was happening in the world. As I continued to read, it seemed that everywhere I looked there were stories of injustice, pain, suffering, and people losing hope. Finally, fueled by my tired, irritable state, I became overcome with compassion and frustration for the way things were. I got up and went to the bathroom and broke down.With tears streaming down my face, I helplessly looked to the sky and yelled to God. “God, look at this mess. Look at all this pain and suffering. Look at all this killing and hate. God, how could you let this happen? Why don’t you do something?”Just then, a quiet stillness pacified my heart. A feeling of peace I won’t ever forget engulfed my body. And, as I looked into my own eyes in the mirror, the answer to my own question came back to me… “Steve, stop asking God to do something. God already did something, he gave you life. Now YOU do something!

~ Steve Maraboli

When you live for the purpose of making a difference for the people, for society, for the things that are beyond you, then significance will not be able to elude you.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you have discovered your significance, your life will now begin to move towards making a difference.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

Good advice for anyone wanting to make an impact with a product, a service or even a message is to differentiate yourself.

~ Donny Ingram

Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that.

~ Germany Kent

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

~ Amit Kalantri

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. When we use them for that greater purpose, we put faith into action to fulfill His plan for us. We make a difference in this world that helps prepare us for the next.

~ Nick Vujicic

When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.

~ Moutasem Algharati

The alternatives in my life went through my mind. Unemployed, alone, despairing, watching daytime TV. That couldn't end well.Or helping people, like genuinely making a difference. Imagine waking up and doing that every day?

~ Ruth Ahmed

Yes, you can make a difference! You can speak on behalf of those who are voiceless.

~ E.n. Supen

There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.

~ Mandy Hale

The most rewarding times are those spent in changing lives for the sake of humanity.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

You've got to know what your magic is. How else will you fully share your gifts with others and enrich the world for these precious years that you live?

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

What lies ahead? Worrying about it or creating it. Both requires a choice, one opens the door.

~ Tom Althouse

Until you go and grow ‎MAD‬ with and in your true passion and purpose, you cannot enter the realm of meteority which is enemical to mediocrity.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

All those dotted lines were just the parts of the story where she would get on the ground and get her hands dirty with the mess of it all. The mess and the glory of other people’s hearts and heart songs. She would learn it would take grit, and guts, and courage to make a difference. But the world will always need people who care enough to make a difference, so she needed to not miss her casting call.

~ Hannah Brencher

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

~ John Piper

Resolving to influence and persuade others will require a degree of personal passion and a depth of caring that you are willing to express and act on. I can tell you this: it will make you feel very vulnerable. The only antidote is to believe you are after a worthwhile change and that you are likely to be the right one to lead this particular charge.

~ Charlotte Beers

Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.

~ Mandy Hale

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

You don't have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.

~ Mandy Hale

We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.

~ Mandy Hale

Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone's heart.

~ Mandy Hale

Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too.

~ Mandy Hale

Rejoice in the works of your hands, be happy and thankful that you are valuable, that what you say and do insn't taken for a ride, that you have rejected the notion of self-doubt and fear, that God isn't blind towards propagating your positive influence, and finally that you'll leave a meritorious legacy.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.

~ Aberjhani

One of the nicest things you can do to kick-start your children’s day is to tell them honestly they look nice as they head out the door. This easy, five-second exchange says to your child: “I see you; I notice you; I love you.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us.

~ Mike Klepper

Because this, as it turned out, was her destiny. Not to be the powerful sorceress her people had been waiting for , not to to be the ruthless killer the assassins needed. Her destiny was to save one person at a time, change things one tiny step after another.It still hurt, a tinge of loss. Her life wouldn't be grand, or dramatic, or momentous. There would be no great choices to make, no moments when everything would change. It would make a dull story if she was ever called upon to tell it.It hurt, yes. But it was also something of a relief.

~ Leah Cypess

You can make a difference, wherever you are. It begins with a decision and defined purpose.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowing your purpose on earth is simple, but the task here is to bring about the success of your destiny.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...

~ Max Mckeown

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

~ Max Mckeown

confident: have no fans... only flames.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours.

~ Mandy Hale

When we face our fear of death and slow down our busy lives, we come to realize our relationships are precious, a part of life’s foundation. Knowing this fact helps us to understand that death’s true purpose is to teach us how to live.

~ Molly Friedenfeld