I Want To Make A Difference Quotes

#1. We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

Neil Cavuto

#2. I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

John C. Maxwell

#3. I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

Zac Goldsmith

#4. I want to make a difference.

Kyle Shewfelt

#5. I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.

Claire Messud

#6. I want to make a difference, to help someone. And I don't know how.

Esther Earl

#7. If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist.

Eli Broad

#8. I want to make a difference in the world because I believe that's what science is for.

Craig Mello

#9. I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Lady Gaga

#10. I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

David Friedman

#11. If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Lady Gaga

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I want to go to school. College. Get a degree. I want to make a difference.

Maya Banks

#15. I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.

Meagan Earls

#16. I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

Aaron Huey

#17. I don't consider this hard work. I love it, and I think I get to make a difference. I really believe in Secretary Clinton, and I want to feel like I'm part of making a difference; I really do.

Xavier Becerra

#18. I want my life to make a positive difference to the kids.
I want to be a good husband to my wife,
I want my children to speak about what daddy did.
When my life is close to over, I hope God is proud of me.

Delano Johnson

#19. I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference ... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.

John Thune

#20. I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.

Pierce Brosnan

#21. We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero. Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.

Rupert Murdoch

#22. I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference

Mark Victor Hansen

#23. I remember being influenced by great artists when I was a kid - not to call myself a great artist - but people who I thought were great enough that they really made a difference. And so I would never want to be disappointed by them, and I want to make sure I never disappoint audience.

Sarah Jones

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#27. Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make sure that Barack Obama is focused on them with things that will make a difference. They know he tried, but they also know that it didn't do as well as they would have liked.

Chuck Schumer

#28. I don't believe you are simply born with the ambition of becoming chancellor. But if you want to make a difference, if you enjoy putting ideas into practice, then the post of chancellor has to be the one presenting the biggest opportunity of all.

Angela Merkel

#29. I want happiness. Stability. Some career milestones to be proud of, people around me who make me laugh, and the ability to go to bed each night and think, 'I made a difference for someone.

Tawna Fenske

#30. I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.

Freddy Adu

#31. It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

Clay Aiken

#32. I like the stroke seat. I want to be there. I want to have the race come down to a short distance and be the person to make the difference. I can't stand to be behind and I don't want to lose.

Chris Ahrens

#33. When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

Arne Duncan

#34. So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time.

Philippe Perrin

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.

Aunjanue Ellis

#40. I want to help kids when I'm no longer here, when I'm dead and gone. I want to help kids when I don't have the energy and the time to help them but somehow still find a way to make a difference.

Tim Tebow

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

Kesha

#42. And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.

Bel Kaufman

#43. 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

#44. One of these days you're going to wake up," William finally said, "and I will have shaved you, Everywhere." (Paris) "Won't make a difference. Women will still want me.

Gena Showalter

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

Miranda Cosgrove

#46. I just want to make a difference for others like me. To provide a way for those who'd follow me.

Sai Marie Johnson

#47. 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

#48. I've had to create companies that I believe in 100%. These are companies I feel will make a genuine difference. Then I have to be willing to find the time myself to talk about them, promote them and market them. I don't want to spend my life doing something that I'm not proud of.

Richard Branson

#49. This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?

Brad Pitt

#50. There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other ... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose ... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference.

Phil Jackson

#51. 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

#52. Whatever you do, remember that. You're going to make a difference. A lot of times it won't be huge, it won't be visible even. But it will matter just the same. Don't do it for praise or money, that's what I want to tell you. Do it because it needs to be done. Do it to make your world better.

Ed Brubaker

#53. Wherever I am in the world I want to be creating new projects and innovations, which are exciting and make a difference to communities.

David Batstone

#54. 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.
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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

#55. 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

#56. Most people want to save the entire world. It's a lovely thought, and I'm not saying it's not a noble pursuit - but it's impossible to save everyone. You just have to pick your little corner of the world and focus your energy there. That's the only way you will ever make a difference.

Lang Leav

#57. 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

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

Kenny Cunningham

#59. As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

Randy Owen

#60. 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

#61. I've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at their lives differently, or give them an escape.

Hill Harper

#62. I want to be known as the mayor who happens to be Latino who made a difference. I ran to make a difference.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#63. If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.

Gary Johnson

#64. I'm always struck by how innately curious kids are about the world around us and how engaged and sensitive they are to what is happening .. and how many kids do want to be engaged and do what to make a difference.

Chelsea Clinton

#65. 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