Top 100 Want To Make A Difference Quotes
#1. 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
#2. If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team in Washington. Believe me, your ideas count. An individual can make a difference.
George H. W. Bush
#3. The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.
Jodi Picoult
#4. I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.
John C. Maxwell
#5. 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
#6. Change comes with sacrifice ... When you want to make a change you must be prepared to make a sacrifice of escaping the comfort zone!
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. 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
#8. When we know why we're here as individuals and leaders, when our people know why they're here, a sense of purpose carries us forward, and we can do what needs to be done. People want to work on big ideas that matter to them and make a difference. When they do, they find gold.
Howard Behar
#9. To the cowards, change is a want; to the weak, change is a wish; but to the brave, change is a must. People who put change ahead of all things are those who make a difference!
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.
Neil Cavuto
#11. It doesn't hurt me on a personal level, but it hurts me on a larger level of like, why are people so stupid? Why do we have to go through these unnecessary exercises. Fight crime, don't fight me. If you really want to make a difference don't fight me or Fugazi.
Ian MacKaye
#12. I want to get the message out that everybody can make a difference.
Miranda Cosgrove
#13. I just want to make a difference for others like me. To provide a way for those who'd follow me.
Sai Marie Johnson
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. You want to make a big bold difference in this world? Then pray big, bold prayers.
Craig Groeschel
#17. 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
#18. Christians have made too much out of work in the same way that Americans have begun engaging in yoga competitions - twisted-up versions of a purer thing. Christians want to make a difference. So we do, and we do, and we do, and then we find ourselves exhausted. In
Shauna Niequist
#19. Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it.
Nicola Sturgeon
#20. The one's who want to make a difference, the people who can change the world for the better, are laughed out of the game by the players.
Joshua Grisham
#21. Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.
Roy H. Williams
#22. There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.
Hamdi Ulukaya
#23. If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!
Brene Brown
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.
Kesha
#28. If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.
Seth
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference.
Kenny Cunningham
#33. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall
#34. As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.
Randy Owen
#35. Employees want to believe their company has a meaningful purpose. They want to know that their own job is worthwhile. They want to make a difference. If all three of these conditions are accomplished, bottom line results will follow.
Quint Studer
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. We have set out to bring a difference in your lives, to bring smiles back on your face, to fulfil your dreams. We want to make such an India.
Narendra Modi
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#46. 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
#47. If you want to make a difference, you need to start today." ~ Matt
Katy Evans
#48. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people's lives, not just their own bank balances.
Richard Branson
#49. 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
#50. Sometimes, when you want to make a difference in a person's life, stay out of it.
Dane Cook
#51. I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#52. 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
#53. We don't want to disqualify individuals who are selected partly because they bring that diverse experience to the court in cases where that experience is most likely to make a difference.
Deborah Rhode
#54. When you're in sync with the director, on the type of movie you want to make, the arc of the characters, how the characters intertwine and interact, plotlines and story, and things like that, it really makes a difference.
Dwayne Johnson
#55. 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
#56. All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
Henry David Thoreau
#57. 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
#58. I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Mark Victor Hansen
#59. Now is the time ... if you want to make a difference in the world, now is the time. Don't be fooled into thinking you should wait until you are older or wiser or more secure because it doesn't work that way. The wisdom will come. The security will come. But first you must begin.
Ron Atchison
#60. 2If you love kids; if you love kids with grit; and above all, if you want to make a difference, back programs that inspire children to realize that they can grow up to be more than pawns.
Nicholas D. Kristof And Sheryl WuDunn
#61. 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
#63. I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
Lady Gaga
#64. If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.
Damian Kulash
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.
Meagan Earls
#68. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. I want to make a difference in the world because I believe that's what science is for.
Craig Mello
#73. 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
#74. Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done.
Amy Poehler
#75. If you really want to make a difference for the customer, so what you have got to do is to make sure the products that you're bringing down in price are ones that they are buying every day.
Ian McLeod
#76. I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.
Freddy Adu
#77. Do you want to come climb the transformationa l leadership mountain with me? Your first step begins with DESIRE. Do you want to make a difference in the lives of others? If your answer is yes, you can be that agent of change you wish to see around the world!
John C. Maxwell
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. The question is not 'Can you make a difference?' You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet.
Julia Hill
#82. 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
#83. I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.
Claire Messud
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to make the change you want to see. And don't think it takes a huge team to make that difference either.
Jason Fried
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#91. 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
#92. If you really want to help make a difference while getting a true travel experience, consider a community-run trip.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
#93. 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
#94. On the contrary, if grandparents want to make a positive difference in their grandchildren's lives, they must have a plan.
Tim Kimmel
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
Dan Gable
#98. The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.
Tony Oliva
#99. 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
#100. It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists. You don't want to inadvertently end up doing someone's bidding.
Darryl Pinckney
