Inspirational Quotes About Making a Difference

Are you ready to make a difference in someone's life? Seize the day and make the most of every opportunity. Be proactive and make a difference today. You can help someone in need or volunteer your time for a worthy cause. Be an encouragement to someone who's in need of a friend. Give a hug to someone who's hurting. Use your imagination and make a difference today. Feel free to use these inspirational quotes for a letter, a note or an email.

"One person can make a difference and every person should try."
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
--Winston Churchill

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
--Dr. Seuss

"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."
--Lucy Larcom

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
--Mahatma Ghandi

"You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it."
--Earvin Magic Johnson

"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world."
--Mother Teresa

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
--William Penn

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
--Robert Frost

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
--Anne Frank

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring: all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
--Leo Buscaglia

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do."
--Edward Everett Hale

"There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude."
--W. Clement Stone

"Often we set out to make a difference in the lives of others only to discover we have made a difference in our own."
--Ellie Braun-Haley

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

"The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all."
--Leo Rosten

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
--William James

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"
--Anne Frank

"I believe in making your own breaks. You work hard and you have to make your own bounces, just like life. There's a difference between wanting things and making things happen. It doesn't do any good to want it, you have to make it happen."
--Steve Martinson

"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre."
--Uta Hagen

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
--Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

"Each day when I awake I know I have one more day to make a difference in someone's life"
--James Mann

"We can make a difference once we decide to be the difference, then do it all for the glory of God. It begins within "OUR" heart."
--Joyce C. Lock

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

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can."
--Sydney Smith

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it."
--William James

"It's not what happens to you...it's what you do about it that makes the difference."
--W. Mitchell

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
--Nelson Henderson

"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."
--Norman Lear

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

"In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy."
--Karl Reiland

"The difference between a pro and an amateur is consistency."
--George Render

"The REAL American Dream is not about a garage full of new cars, winning the lottery, or retiring to a life of ease in Florida. It's about doing work that has meaning, work that makes a difference, and doing that work with people you care about."
--Joe Tye

"He who gives when he is asked has waited too long."
--Sunshine Magazine

"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."
--Confucius

"Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference are pretty low."
--Tom Peters

"Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful."
--Author Unknown

"Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
--Edmund Burke

"Go the extra mile. It's never crowded."
--Author Unknown

"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

"Find a need and fill it."
--Ruth Stafford Peale

"If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart."
--Arabian Proverb

"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference."
--Ellen Goodman

"Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light."
--Norman B. Rice

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
--Mother Teresa

"The only gift is a portion of thyself."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Improvement begins with I."
--Arnold Glasow

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