Most of us want to make a difference in the world, to not just live, but to live with a purpose. As we make our way into the world, we tend to become so wrapped up in all our concerns that it can be easy to lose sight of the bigger picture.
Perhaps you’ve never heard of Make A Difference Day. Started in 1992, the day is celebrated on the fourth Saturday of every October. It is a day where people perform community service, volunteer, or serve others in various ways .
Truth is, we can all make a difference, every single day. If you’re still not convinced, these make a difference quotes will change your mind:
Make a Difference Quotes With Kindness
Aesop
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Oscar Wilde
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
Barbara De Angelis
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”
Princess Diana
“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
Mark Twain
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
Amelia Earhart
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Harold Kushner
“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.”
Dalai Lama
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
Mother Teresa
“If you cannot feed a hundred people, feed one.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
Amy Leigh Mercree
“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.”
Make a Difference Quotes With Leadership
Lisa Haisha
“Great leaders don’t set out to be a leader; they set out to make a difference. It’s never about the role, always about the goal.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
John C. Maxwell
“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
Harvey S. Firestone
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”
Ronald Reagan
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
John C. Maxwell
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
General Montgomery
“My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.”
John F. Kennedy
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
Aristotle
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
Brian Tracy
“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.”
Make a Difference Quotes With Personal Responsibility
Jane Goodall
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Bill Richardson
“I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what’s right for the people. I choose to make a difference.”
Elaine Dalton
“If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Jimmy Johnson
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Anne Frank
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Dow Zantamata
“Aim to make a difference in someone’s life every single day, including your own.”
Bryant McGill
“It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.”
Heidi Wills
“We can choose to be affected by the world or we can choose to affect the world.”
Make a Difference Quotes With Inspiration and Motivation
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
Robert Ingersoll
“We rise by lifting others.”
Barbara Mikulski
“Each of us can make a difference. Together we make change.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
Pablo
“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.”
Christine Todd Whitman
“Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.”
Jeffrey Skoll
“If you can find ways to give people hope that they can achieve something or make a difference, then there’s an opportunity for something good to happen.”
Barack Obama
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
Pericles
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
Dr. Seuss
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
Dalai Lama
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
Margaret Mead
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
Albert Pine
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
George Bernard Shaw
“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ‘brief candle’ for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
Mandy Hale
“There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”
Anonymous
“We can talk about making a difference or we can make a difference.”
Jack Lew
“I think there’s no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people’s lives and improve the world.”
Nelson Mandela
“We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.”
Helen Keller
“I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but I can still do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
John F. Kennedy
“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”
William James
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
Madam C.J. Walker
“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”
Thomas Edison
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Amelia Earhart
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.”
Michael Altshuler
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
Jimmy Dean
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
Queen Elizabeth II
“It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.”
C.S. Lewis
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
Carol Burnett
“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.”
Malala Yousafzai
“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.”
Alexander the Great
“There is nothing impossible to they who will try.”
Winston Churchill
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Billie Jean King
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
Rosa Parks
“We will fail when we fail to try.”
Albert Einstein
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”
William James
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
Winston Churchill
“Attitude is the ‘little’ thing that makes a big difference.”
Willie Nelson
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
Mark Cuban
“If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.”
Deep Roy
“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.”
Mary Lou Retton
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
Taraji P. Henson
“I don’t harp on the negative because if you do, then there’s no progression. There’s no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.”
Anne Frank
“Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
Charles Dickens
“The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan
“Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.”
Hafez
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”
Grace Kelly
“For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them.”
Simone Biles
“Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that’s when you’re more successful. You have to choose to do it.”
Estée Lauder
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
In Conclusion: Embracing the Power Within to Make a Difference
Ultimately, the most important takeaway from these quotes about making a difference is the recognition that we all have the power to make a difference. Every act of kindness, every decision to act with integrity, every effort to uplift others, creates a ripple effect that extends far beyond ourselves.
By embracing our potential to make a difference, we not only contribute to a better world but also enrich our own lives with purpose and meaning. So, let us be inspired by these words, and let us step forward with courage and determination to create the positive change we wish to see in the world.
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