good quotes and sayings about making a difference
50 Good Quotes and Sayings About Making a Difference
As an individual, you think that you could never make a difference in the world, but you can. It all begins with ideas. They soon become words, which becomes your actions, which then turn into habits that shape your character, and finally, culminates into your destiny. This Buzzle article shares inspirational, good quotes and sayings about making a difference in this universe.
One Day at a Time!
Eugene and Minhee Cho founded One Day's Wages―a non-profit organization based primarily on donating one day's wages to aid and uplift the needy. In 2009, they donated their entire yearly income to their cause in a bid to set a positive example.Motivational Quotes and Sayings About Making a Difference
1. "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
― Anne Frank
2. "We can do no great things, only small things with great love."
― Robert Fulghum
3. "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
4. "When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
― Eleanor Roosevelt
5. "I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back."
― Maya Angelou
6. "I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives."
― Tracy Chapman
7. "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
― Nelson Henderson
8. "Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good."
― Minor Myers
9. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
― William James
10. "Your thoughts, words and deeds are painting the world around you."
― Jewel Diamond Taylor
11. "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
12. "Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count."
― Stella McCartney
13. "Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change."
― Barbara Mikulski
14. "If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference."
― Lady Gaga
15. "We must become the change we want to see in the world."
― Mahatma Gandhi
16. "Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you."
― T.A. Barron
17. "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
― Muhammad Ali
18. "Never get tired of doing little things for others. Sometimes, those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts."
― Unknown
19. "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
20. "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
― Albert Pike
21. "Being a man or a woman is a matter of birth. Being a man or a woman who makes a difference is a matter of choice."
― Byron Garrett
22. "See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects."
― Robert Brault
23. "Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
― Edwin Hubbel Chapin
24. "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
25. "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."
― Mandy Hale
26. "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
― Mother Teresa
27. "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."
― Nelson Mandela
28. "As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way."
― Mary Anne Radmacher
29. "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."
― Stevie Wonder
30. "I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others."
― Booker T. Washington
31. "If there was ever a time to dare, to make a difference, to embark on something worth doing, IT IS NOW."
― Unknown
32. "Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. "
― Ayn Rand
33. "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
― Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
34. "Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light."
― Norman B. Rice
35. "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
― Winston Churchill
36. "You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
― Kahlil Gibran
37. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
― Robert Frost
38. "The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. "
― Thomas Carlyle
39. "The best things in life aren't things."
― Art Buchwald
40. "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
― Buddha
41. "Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him."
― Albert Schweitzer
42. "If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart."
― Arabian Proverb
43. "It is the heart that does the giving; the fingers only let go."
― Nigerian saying
44. "When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves."
― Eleonora Duse
45. "There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
― Edith Wharton
46. "Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy."
― Natalie Angier
47. "Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."
― Aristotle
48. "One person can make a difference, and everyone should try. "
― John F Kennedy
49. "Nothing is impossible, the word itself is i'm possible!"
― Audrey Hepburn
50. "If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."
Now that you realize that you can make a difference, you can always come up with plans to change the world by volunteering for a cause that is close to your heart.― Lucy Larcom