Denzel Washington
Actor, Director
"Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference."
Making A Difference quotes
Making A Difference
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Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat."
Drake
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"I like when money makes a difference but don't make you different"
Marie Forleo
Entrepreneur, Author
"Never start a business just to 'make money'. Start a business to make a difference."
Stan Lee
Comic Book Writer, Editor
"I guess one person can make a difference."
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"We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts."
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"There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance"
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"One person of integrity can make a difference."
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"Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product."
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"In a position to make a difference, politicians and hypocrites they don't wanna listen."
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"We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are."
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"To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it."
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"Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world."
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"We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don't buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight."
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"I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death."
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"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."
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"It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today."
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"It doesn't make a difference how gradually you go so long as you don't stop."
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"I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God"
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"It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?"
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"The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little."
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"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
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"Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used."
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"Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around. Care enough to change. Care enough to win."
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"Decide that you don’t mind being inconvenienced or interrupted, and God will use you to make a difference."
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