If you are seeking the best quotes about making a difference, you’re in the right place! 🙏
Below, you will some insightful, revealing, and appreciative quotes about making a difference that are sure to inspire and motivate!
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67+ Appreciative Quotes About Making a Difference
1. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
2. “The most unlikely person can alter the course of history.” – Sarah J. Maas
3. “We can do no great things, only small things with great love.” – Robert Fulghum
4. “If you want to make a difference, think different.” – Palle Oswald
5. “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” – Tom Brokaw
6. “Make a difference about something other than yourselves.” – Toni Morrison
7. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” – Mother Teresa
8. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
9. “You can’t make a difference in an echo chamber.” – R.A. Delmonico
10. “We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.” – Stevie Wonder
11. “Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.” – Barbara Mikulski
12. “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.” – John F. Kennedy
13. “You are never too insignificant to make a difference.” – Gift Gugu Mona
14. “You really can change the world if you care enough.” – Marian Wright Edelman
15. “We must become the change we want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
16. “Break the stereotype and make a landmark.” – Suyasha Subedi
17. “Heart is what makes a difference.” – Jerry Sloan
18. “Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.” – Aristotle
19. “Seize the day, make a difference; never wait for a handout.” – Carlos Wallace
20. “Your thoughts, words and deeds are painting the world around you.” – Jewel Diamond Taylor
21. “Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.” – Norman B. Rice
22. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jake Goodall
23. “Even though the world is large, one person can still make a world of difference.” – Frank Sonnenberg
24. “Small acts of kindness can make a difference in other peoples lives more than we can imagine.” – Catherine Pulsifer
25. “I’ve seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.” – Tracy Chapman
26. “We can ALWAYS make a difference to someone, no matter what role we play.” – Lindsey Sterling
27. “A woman of substance is never afraid to stand in the gap and make a difference.” – Gift Gugu Mona
28. “Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.” – Minor Myers
29. “God wonderfully made you different; you must make a wonderful difference!” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
30. “You may find that making a difference for others makes the biggest difference in you.” – Brian Williams
31. “Little things done over and over again add up to making a difference in a big way.” – Byron Pulsifer
32. “One sentence can make a difference, and the writer of that sentence can be you.” – Ogwo David Emenike
33. “When it’s all over, it’s not who you were. . . it’s whether you made a difference.” – Robert Joseph Dole
34. “We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in our hands to make a difference.” – Nelson Mandela
35. “Aim to make a difference in someone’s life every single day, including your own.” – Dow Zantamata
36. “I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.” – Marilyn Manson
37. “In this life we cannot always do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
38. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
39. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” – Mother Teresa
40. “Time doesn’t change things. It’s how we use our time that makes the difference.” – Richie Norton
41. “The best the world has to offer comes from the best you have to give to others.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
42. “Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.” – Stella McCartney
43. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
44. “If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.” – Elaine S. Dalton
45. “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.” – Robert F. Kennedy
46. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
47. “Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference.” – Israelmore Ayivor
48. “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy
49. “The question is not whether you can make a difference in the world but what useful difference you can make!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
50. “Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are enough.” – Germany Kent
51. “We may not have the ability to change all of the world’s wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are.” – Dillon Burroughs
52. “It’s your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.” – Anthony Robbins
53. “I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference.” – Widad Akrawi
54. “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
55. “I’d rather be the jester who adds value to those around me than a King with no vision or intention of making a difference.” – Janna Cachola
56. “The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” – Thomas Carlyle
57. “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
58. “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
59. “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
60. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
61. “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
62. “Never underestimate the difference YOU can make in the lives of others. Step forward, reach out and help. This week reach to someone that might need a lift.” – Pablo
63. “Let us be the change that we want to see in the world. Let us be the light that we want to see in the world. The time to make this world a better place is now!” – Avijeet Das
64. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
65. “What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they feel your intervention in their times of need will forever be remembered.” – Israelmore Ayivor
66. “Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.” – William Arthur Ward
67. “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
68. “The enemy is not difference, the enemy is fear of difference. We must celebrate differences so they can bring us together. We must ALL stand together as one, ALL equal, demanding equal justice for ALL!” – Staness Jonekos