Top 100 A Difference Quotes
#1. Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.
Jack London
#2. We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.
Rob Bell
#3. It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.
Jennifer Beals
#4. To me, Texas is Austin, a bunch of cool people trying to make a difference.
Bill Hicks
#5. Help us show children around the world that we can make a difference together.
Bradley Whitford
#6. I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what the culture that tells them thinks about various things: men, women, aging, dying - the most basic aspects of being human.
Helen Oyeyemi
#7. What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.
David Bowie
#8. There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation.
Marc Garneau
#10. There was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.
Nenia Campbell
#11. What's the use of healing, if the life that's saved is callow and selfish and ruled by fear? There's a difference between being in sanctuary and being in hiding.
Louise Penny
#12. Most of us are naturally inclined to struggle against the restrictions our friends and family impose upon us, but if we are so unfortunate as to lose a loved one, what a difference then! Then the restriction becomes a sacred trust.
Susanna Clarke
#13. People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
Seth Godin
#14. You are here to make a difference, to either improve the world or worsen it. And whether or not you consciously choose to, you will accomplish one or the other.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#15. What matters is that you develop the mindset that people want what you have to offer. Your belief that you truly can make a difference makes all the difference! It's called congruent communication.
Matt Anderson
#16. There's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge doesn't fail us. -The Society/Cassia, 'Matched
Ally Condie
#17. If you want to make a difference in someone's life, you don't need to be gorgeous, rich, famous, brilliant or perfect. you just have to care.
Karen Salmansohn
#18. Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.
Sarah Dessen
#19. Every day is Make a Difference Day.
1. Try a Little Tenderness.
2. A Change of Heart Changes Everything.
3. Choose Integrity as your True North and you will never get lost. (Professional athletes wise up.)
Steve William Laible
#20. I believe that you can create genuine fulfillment, make money, have freedom and make a difference for others.
Michael Hutchison
#21. Now more than ever the world needs a caring positive influence to help better humanity. Let's Be The Generation That Made A Difference!
Timothy Pina
#22. Winning 'American Idol' gives the opportunity to really help make a change to a lot of lives, and making a difference has given me the greatest satisfaction and joy.
Taylor Hicks
#23. I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
Vinod Khosla
#24. It is your ability as a creative person to envision positive change that will make a difference.
Patricia Johanson
#25. The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing
and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
Soren Kierkegaard
#26. Why we are here is important, but to know where we are going is imperative. It's not what you've got, it's what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out.
Zig Ziglar
#27. I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation. I want to be remembered for making a difference to global healthcare. And I want to be remembered as someone who did make a difference to social economic development in India.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#28. They put exclusively black history in the syllabus. Is there a difference between a black history of the world and a proper history? They say children must read black novels. Does a novel have a skin colour?
Imraan Coovadia
#29. Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies in the service of God's mission. We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our work, our community, our world, and our church.
Kennon Callahan
#30. To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.
Susan Sarandon
#31. The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.
Thomas Sowell
#32. There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working with the people who can make a difference. They get the benefit of your participation and you gain a direct understanding of the real problems and potential solutions, which makes you a more informed giver.
Michael Milken
#33. Don't be a pepper on the eyes of people; Rather be the salt on their tongue and make a difference that influences their sense of belonging to the earth.
Israelmore Ayivor
#34. You have been created in order that you might make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.
Andy Andrews
#35. If there is one thing that has made a difference in my life, it is the courage to turn and face what wants to change within me.
Elizabeth Lesser
#36. I'd grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn't know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I didn't know him. And there's a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith in which I opened my heart to him and let him rule my life.
Billy Graham
#37. Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though God's character is unchanging, the ways of God are unpredictable, and there is a difference between arbitrariness and unpredictability.
Enuma Okoro
#38. I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don't even care enough to try.
Chris Jordan
#39. There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.
Margaret Atwood
#40. I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
Marilyn Manson
#41. Still, she shoved herself to her feet, because she needed to do what she could, whether it made a difference or not.
Joe Hill
#42. Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.
Nelly
#43. Determination to make a difference, do worthwhile work, get good results, and, at the same time, have fun.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#44. Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.
Mike Ferguson
#45. In Each Of Us Is The Power To Make A Difference!
Al DeCesaris
#46. If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.
Frank Herbert
#47. When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.
Seth Godin
#48. When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.
Peter Senge
#49. But you can't say that what you learn in English class doesn't matter. That great writing doesn't make a difference. I'm
Meg Wolitzer
#50. When you're a kid, you have these big dreams and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference
AnnaSophia Robb
#51. Heartfelt communicators make such a difference in the lives of others through their authentic depth and sincere expression.
Miya Yamanouchi
#52. One must always ... tune out the negative voices of the world and make the strongest voice you hear your own! Go out and make a difference in Humanity! You Can Do It ... If You Really Want To!
Timothy Pina
#53. As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
Dale Earnhardt
#54. 'I cannot face you if you think I look at you and see anything less than the man you are. I am not settling for you, I am reaching for you, and there is a difference, and you are that man.'
Amy Lane
#55. I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.
Robert Hayden
#56. I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.
Brett Favre
#58. I try to be a good representative for country music. But as a country artist, it's important to move the needle and make a difference beyond your core audience. But you can't ever strategically try to accomplish that; then things get weird.
Luke Bryan
#59. I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
Karl Pilkington
#60. I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.
Candice Swanepoel
#61. It is strange a difference comes from a subtraction.
Natasha Tsakos
#62. You can't make a difference until you dare to be different.
Orrin Woodward
#63. There is a difference between willing and forcing. Willing something simply means you are not being lazy. Forcing something means you are trying to do something inappropriate or in an inappropriate way.
Frederick Lenz
#64. Treat employees like they make a difference and they will
James Goodnight
#65. There is a difference between movie actors and TV acting, especially with movie stars, which is they know their face is 20 feet high on the screen. They know they don't have to do much.
Noah Hawley
#66. We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
Sam Harris
#68. My heart is set on my dreams, I persevere and I make a difference
Wogu Donald
#69. Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards.
Robert Kagan
#70. I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.
Birch Bayh
#71. Transformation is something that obsesses me. What is the soul? Is there a difference between something like a soul and something like a self? Is our identity something we construct, or is it organic and natural? There are all kinds of theories.
Christopher Barzak
#73. Be sure that you make a difference in the world.
Henri Nouwen
#74. If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
Guy Kawasaki
#75. I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.
Debra Messing
#76. A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'
Jim Yong Kim
#77. The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.
Jason Mraz
#78. It's difficult to make the argument that one female fist inserted into one male ass
or, for that matter, dozens or even hundreds of fists inserted into as many asses
can really make a difference for, say, lesbian mothers fighting for custody of their children. -Katherine Raymond
Carol Queen
#79. We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.
Scot McKnight
#80. Clara Winter," he said. "You are a word person and don't ever forget it."
He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people.
Alison McGhee
#81. People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
Damien Hirst
#82. I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I made a difference here on important issues.
Dennis Kucinich
#83. One of the best antidotes for depression is to look around and see what you can do to help out - to make a difference - for now and the future. Now is the future, for what I do right now is the future. For what I am doing right now is already affecting tomorrow.
Horst Rechelbacher
#84. And then there's the way that people come here, earnest and full of dreams, believing that they can make a difference. That's the thing about DC - people are always leaving but that makes space for the new transplants, the crowds that keep flooding in, full of energy and wonder.
Jennifer Close
#85. Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.
Anne Sweeney
#86. It should not surprise you when you find opposition and harassment. All of this simply means you're beginning to make a difference and the enemy isn't happy about it.
Praying Medic
#87. But Paying It Forward is about spontaneously offering favors, not needing to say yes when someone asks too much of you. And also, it's about kindness rather than niceness. There's a difference. Kindness is spontaneous and real. Niceness just mostly wants to be liked.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#88. I was recently asked about the business side of 'Biggest Loser,' but as long as we entertain people, we can keep coming back and making a difference. It's a delicate balance, but one feeds off the other. I feel so good about the show - it's uplifting and inspiring and entertaining at the same time.
Alison Sweeney
#89. There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.
Bob Menendez
#90. There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.
Renata Adler
#91. What's the difference between rain and grain? Only a g, though they both grow in the land, and they don't land but fall. What a difference a g makes!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#92. You would think bearing witness to something like this would make a difference, and yet this isn't so. In the newspapers I have read about history repeating itself in Cambodia. Rwanda. Sudan.
Jodi Picoult
#93. We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.
Donna Shalala
#94. I want to be able to look back someday and say, "I did make a difference." Whether is was to open the minds of people to think that a woman can do a good job, or whether it's the fact that so many kids out there think that they could be like me.
Antonia Novello
#95. I am impressed with just the enthusiasm for life and the fact that some of these people are in their 80's, even 90's, and they're absolutely determined to get out there and make a difference.
Richard Branson
#96. I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.
Claire Messud
#97. It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.
Elizabeth Wilson
#98. There are people you know all your life who never really make a difference to who you are; others arrive for a short time and change everything.
Miranda Dickinson
#99. What do you want to do with your life, then? is often the question I'm asked.
To be honest, I don't know. I really don't.
Mainly because I don't see myself living long enough for that to make much of a difference.
Nenia Campbell
#100. It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. Forster
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