"There's so much one person can do, and so many ways they can help make a difference. It just takes one person to help someone to a better life."
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"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!"
"One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference."
"Be sure that you make a difference in the world."
"You may find that making a difference for others makes the biggest difference in you."
"I will act as if I do make a difference."
"Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference."
"I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference."
"Find ways to embrace the things that make you unique, and you'll unlock the ways you can make a difference in the world."
"One person can and does make a difference."
"We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference."
"I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated."
"It is important for us to understand that the way we are perceived in the world is going to make a difference, in terms of our capacity to get cooperation and root out terrorism. And one of the things that I intend to do as president is to restore America's standing in the world."
"Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?"
"Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference."
"I could make a difference."
"It makes a difference who the treasury secretary is."
"There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere."
"If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved."
"We've been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all to prefer fitting in with the right people"