"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."
"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."
"Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around. Care enough to change. Care enough to win."
"Decide that you don’t mind being inconvenienced or interrupted, and God will use you to make a difference."
"People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so."
"I actually think every person can make a difference. Every single human being has within the impulse to express more of who they truly are."
"For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John."
"If you're going to follow your bliss and make a difference in the world, you'll soon learn that you can't follow the herd."
"[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference."
"Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow."
"I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been."
"If there is anything serious enough to make a difference in my ife, I will talk about it."
"One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!"
"You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life."
"Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed."
"I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference."
"If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains."
"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?"
"The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts."