I Can Make A Difference Quotes

#1. I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

Drew Brees

#2. It's important that women support women. It gives me a great sense of well-being to know that I can make a difference in people's lives.

Sheila Johnson

#3. Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.

Michael Treanor

#4. I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

Paris Hilton

#5. My goal in life is to leave behind a safe and healthy world for our children. Before I leave this world, I want to be satisfied that at least I tried. I know I can make a difference, even if it might only be a small one.

Maisie Shiell

#6. I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference; it's delicious food that's just so easy. I think it'll help people enjoy their lives ... it's good!

Paula Deen

#7. I love inspiring people, and if I can make a difference in one person's life, then that's success for me!

Sasha Azevedo

#8. You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

Mitt Romney

#9. I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life.

Tommy Chong

#10. I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#11. I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie. 'Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line. But you and I can make a difference. There's a mission just for you and me.'

Herman Cain

#12. I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference.

David Miliband

#13. In a lot of close games, I can make a difference with my speed.

Johnny Damon

#14. Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

Kate Middleton

#15. Whatever avenue I feel like I can make a difference in, I'd love to do.

Tim Tebow

#16. Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

Queen Latifah

#17. I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Michael Bloomberg

#18. [I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

Katie Couric

#19. If i can do just one tenth of the good
Michael Jackson did for others, i can really make a difference in this world

Justin Bieber

#20. I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.

Kanye West

#21. Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

Joyce Giraud

#22. I can't see anyone coming out, because the players feel it is no one's business. We all stick together. We're a very tight group. It would be too hard for just one person to do, too stressful. And why should it make a difference? The LPGA is about golf.

Hollis Stacy

#23. If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.

Sandra Bullock

#24. I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I'm back to work tomorrow, and that's the only way you can do it.

Bill Ayers

#25. The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice.

Bob Hartley

#26. Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.

Jimmy Carter

#27. When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.

Galen Rowell

#28. I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

Lena Dunham

#29. I want to get the message out that everybody can make a difference.

Miranda Cosgrove

#30. The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

Ian McKellen

#31. However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

Isaac Asimov

#32. I guess one person can make a difference.

Stan Lee

#33. I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference.

Jill Bennett

#34. Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.

David Rubenstein

#35. When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.

Andre Leon Talley

#36. Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

Sean Covey

#37. My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.

Ed Koch

#38. I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.

Craig Newmark

#39. Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.

Salma Hayek

#40. I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.

Thomas Jefferson

#41. We're given a choice in our lives, to make things better, or worse, or merely endure like sheep. I choose to make things better, as much as I can.

Mercedes Lackey

#42. I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

Walter Dean Myers

#43. I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.

Kesha

#44. Through my work at the Katie Piper Foundation, I've seen how the smallest of kindness can make a difference to someone's life. Even a simple smile instead of a start can lift someone's heart.

Katie Piper

#45. While I've been asked to run for Congress, I really believe we need to defend freedom locally. And by doing that, by just standing at the local level we can make a massive difference.

Matt Shea

#46. I want to go barefoot because it's holy ground; I want to be running because time is short and none of us has as much runway as we think we do; and I want it to be a fight because that's where we can make a difference. That's what love does.

Bob Goff

#47. For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.

Adam Rickitt

#48. I make love like farm equipment - not to farm equipment. There is a difference, though my cousin can't tell it.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#49. The Almighty has plans for us to make a place so we can go on and make a difference. It all has to do with my faith; I am deeply religious. It goes back to my roots, to my mom and my dad.

Dikembe Mutombo

#50. I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference.

Kenny Cunningham

#51. Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can't help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it's just not fair. It's something I feel like I can help make a difference.

Shannon Elizabeth

#52. I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference.

Christian Serratos

#53. I can't apply $3 billion in capital to the tech industry. It wouldn't work. But in infrastructure, education, I can make a real difference. I can change someone's life, for the better, permanently. If I can improve a kid's education, I can increase their salary later on and for decades.

Dustin Moskovitz

#54. There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

Kathryn Bigelow

#55. Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well.

Justin Trudeau

#56. It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world. That's their motive, that's their passion ... I think that's what makes your life meaningful, that's what fills your own heart and that's what gives you purpose.

Maria Shriver

#57. It's going to go little random, probably I look like an idiot, I can't make difference between a normal person smile and person who likes me, but still... that's another story which probably I am going to save it for later, if I try to memorize it.

Deyth Banger

#58. I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or on your own block.

Michelle Monaghan

#59. I believe deeply that every one of us has an individual talent or trait that can be used to make a difference in some way.

Jeff Orlowski

#60. I won't lie - I don't care.
And you should quit trying to deceive yourself because I can tell by the way you show no desire to do anything but complain about the issue that you don't honestly care either.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#61. Do excellent work for Christ. So that's my heart. It's always been. And I want to be the best I can be. I want to make a difference in my generation.

Ricky Skaggs

#62. Makeup is my world, and I know that a little things ... the right technique, colour or brush ... can make all the difference,

Rae Morris

#63. I believe we can balance the scales if Tom Cruise would lower his quote by a mere $29 million ... I assure you my salary would not make a difference. My annual salary is the budget for Altoids on one of Tom's movies.

Alec Baldwin

#64. To have a strong community of people who believe in your potential can make all the difference in the world. So many people have invested in me and I want to do the same for Chicago's teens.

Derrick Rose

#65. Conversations about politics can give you the somewhat errant impression that you can make a difference to people's lives by talking about what others should be doing.

Daniela I. Norris

#66. There's really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn't make a difference
because I'd just be running from myself, and you can't do that no matter how hard you
try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.

Pete Wentz

#67. Can a book make such a difference? Can it change you utterly?

I know it can.

(First essay from The Book That Changed My Life, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen)

Dorothy Allison

#68. People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Miles D. White

#69. In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?

Paul Allen

#70. I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference.

Russell Simmons

#71. I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can do is to go back home to the canyon where we live and ask the kinds of questions that can make a difference in our neighborhoods.

Terry Tempest Williams

#72. I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you're going to make a difference or change anything, you're on pretty dangerous thin ice.

Neill Blomkamp

#73. You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.

Gene Simmons

#74. Being a mom, I am even more inspired to really help make a difference. I can't imagine what it would be like if my child didn't have a meal to eat.

Ciara

#75. I have lived long enough to see real, significant changes made for the good...and I have been fortunate enough to have participated in some of them...One person can make a difference!
(Father Ted Hesburgh, C.S.C., quoted in our book, God's Icebreaker by Jill A. Boughton and Julie Walters)

Jill A. Boughton

#76. I just want to be the biggest artist that I can be, and I want to make a difference. I feel like Michael (Jackson) made a difference with everything that he did. He was so charitable and just always on-point. I just want to be where he is, as an artist.

Justin Bieber

#77. I think I just want to leave my mark in some way. I hope I leave the world a better place than it was when I came, and I think the best way I can do that is through acting and writing, and hopefully it will make a difference someday.

Chris Colfer

#78. The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen.

Rhianna Pratchett

#79. But Mother, I don't want to go. It's just that ... I have to. I can't spend the rest of my life hiding in the attic.
[ ... ]
I don't want to be a burden[ ... ]I want to do something with my life. Figure out ways to help other third kids. Make - make a difference in the world.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#80. I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world.

George Foreman

#81. I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

Fiona Apple

#82. I have one life and one chance to make it count for something ... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.

Jimmy Carter

#83. I believe that each person can make a difference, but it's so slight that there's basically no point.

Lauren Lapkus

#84. Definitely with the fit of clothing - how it really depends on mere centimeters and millimeters of difference in terms of how lengths can make such a big impact on your shape. I learned how to incorporate a cute peter pan collar on a dress and not make it look juvenile.

Lily Collins

#85. We know in history that great individuals have totally changed everything, whether it be Jesus Christ or Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill or Albert Einstein. I actually think every person can make a difference.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#86. I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.

Aaron Peirsol

#87. A man can't ask for much more than the chance to make a difference in his chosen field of work. Politics is my vocation. I'm forever grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this great country of ours. I know I am a better person for it.

Jean Chretien

#88. I have 2 million Twitter followers. Some of those people are also yogis and activists and people who really go out and make a difference. I do as much as I can with my voice. It's effortless in some cases. I try to remind everybody that they have that kind of voice.

Russell Simmons

#89. She and I can continue to make a difference.

Susan Q. Knittle-Hunter

#90. I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

Walter Dean Myers

#91. Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.

Pete Seeger

#92. There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

Kurt Busch

#93. I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

Bill Bryson

#94. I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.

Malorie Blackman

#95. I write to express myself, I write to be a voice for those who can not speak I write to inspire change in positive ways I write in hope to make a difference After I have giving up the ghost I would have written to leave my foot prints behind

Ocean Crisstopher Poet

#96. I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference ... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

Madeleine Albright

#97. A guy like myself wants to make a play and be the difference, but the thing is I have to keep saying to myself to just do what I can.

Daunte Culpepper

#98. I think personal actions definitely matter. I think collectively they can make a big difference. But I also think that people don't live in a vacuum.

Chip Giller

#99. I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.

Cornel West

#100. I really believe that with a little bit of information, kids can make a big difference.

Chelsea Clinton