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MAKING A DIFFERENCE QUOTATIONS
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Jane Goodall

“Most people are like you and me, or the people across the street or around the world from you and me. Just like you and me, their hearts tell them that somewhere, somehow, they can make a positive difference in the world. ”

William Baker

“It takes each of us to make a difference for all of us.”

Jackie Mutcheson

“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 that I can do.”

Edward Everett Hale

“Never underestimate the valuable and important difference you make in every life you touch for the impact you make today has a powerful rippling effect on every tomorrow.”

Leon Brown

“The world is not interested in what we do for a living. What they are interested in is what we have to offer freely - hope, strength, love and the power to make a difference! ”

Sasha Azevedo

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make a change.”

Barbara Mikulski

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

Nelson Henderson

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.”

J.K. Rowling

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough, we must do.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“We can choose to be affected by the world or we can choose to affect the world. ”

Heidi Wills

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Vivian Hernandez from Bronx, NY AUGUST 28, 2014
These quotes are great especially for the start of the school year. Words to live by and model for others. Thank you for making a difference!
reeja hasan from australia AUGUST 21, 2014
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.:)
anusha from north nazimabad karachi AUGUST 21, 2014
make a difference in everyone's life by helping others
alex from alto  JANUARY 10, 2014
true
ellen obar from mambuaya DECEMBER 12, 2013
if you will make difference you will make the world of difference also.
Pablo Picasso from London  NOVEMBER 19, 2013
We always have to make a difference at work, good grades in school, live with a purpose.
Bruce Willingham from Warner Robins,Ga JUNE 8, 2012
To make a difference is to enrich someone's life by what we say or do.
Anderson from Colatina-ES, Brasil APRIL 5, 2012
We always have to make a difference at work, good grades in school, live with a purpose.
Dave from Houston OCTOBER 29, 2011
Love these, keep up the good work!
Jessie from Oakland California OCTOBER 27, 2011
making a difference can really help a lot of people out
Lola from Houston FEBRUARY 4, 2011
I love these values they really do make a difference!
Armoni from Atlanta, Georgia JANUARY 4, 2011
Making a Difference is indescribable thing. In fact, it is magical, because changing others lives changes yours even if you were not planning on it.