Quotes Tagged "make-a-difference"

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.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

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.

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.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming to have what you have.

Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own way.

You are never too insignificant to make a difference.

You must dwell, says Garden, within time to shift it in lasting ways; play a slow game, but win.

Time doesn’t change things. It’s how we use our time that makes the difference.

If we think a magic fairy named “time” is finally going to make all things right in the world, we’re dreaming.

Why should I care if your children die from dirty water; polluted air; CFCs in the environment; plastic in everything that they ingest & breath; radiation from microwave towers, communication networks & mobile phones; radiation from nuclear fallout and artificial microbes bred for specific uses? You don't? Otherwise if you did care, you would actually get off your seats and do something. But you don't. You just sit back and let everything happen because you believe that you can't make a difference, but the truth is; everyone can make a difference if there is enough of us. It's time to put greed aside and start living with the knowledge that you can make a difference.

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

One person can make a difference, even if it takes forty years.

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.

While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.

I didn't really get into the sport for fame. I didn't get into it to be this infamous guy that everybody worships. I got into this sport to make a difference.