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The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern. — Max Lucado

Difference is the beginning of synergy. — Stephen Covey

People who are 'different' are usually the ones that end up making a difference in the world. — Hayley Williams

A great team relies on its leaders and they have to make a difference at key moments. — Kylian Mbappe

One person can and does make a difference. — Albert Schweitzer

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change. — Barbara Mikulski

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers. — Daniel H. Pink

Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference. — Andy Stanley

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency. — Malcolm Gladwell

Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. — Jane Goodall

Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many. — Elizabeth May

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. — Jane Goodall

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. — Lance Morrow

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead. — Nelson Mandela

Differ Quotes

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. — Albert Einstein

There is something that happens when you get emancipated. You approach life differently. You eat differently. You respect yourself more. You respect the gift you have been given. — Prince

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Difference makers quote Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. — Dalai Lama

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio CusinatiMaria Callas

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. — Haile Selassie

Difference makers quote 10% of conflict is due to difference in opinion and 90% is due to delivery and tone of voice.
10% of conflict is due to difference in opinion and 90% is due to delivery and tone of voice.

The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything's settled, you can see more. — Kevin Gates

I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different. — Lil Wayne

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage. — Victor Kiam

Different Me Quotes

I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies. — Kevin Gates

Trust me, ... I know where my heart is and my heart's right here. I'm going to keep doing everything because I love to do it, but I will never sacrifice my time between the ropes. That's no shot to anybody. Everybody's got different career paths. This is mine. — John Cena

My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas. — Misty Copeland

Difference makers quote Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. — Sitting Bull

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi

My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky — Nizar Qabbani

Difference makers quote Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.

Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own? — Sitting Bull

All I’m saying is like, spoil me with your consistency Always remain the same you and you won’t have to worry about a different me — Wale

I learned in school that money isn’t everything. It’s happiness that counts. So momma sent me to a different school. — Sayings

Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers. — Alexander The Great

Difference Quotes

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. — Ayn Rand

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. — Benjamin Franklin

Difference makers quote Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you  have made. If you want a different result,
Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. — Thomas Jefferson

You go to new places and it opens your eyes to different things you haven't seen before. Everything from colors, to silhouettes, to patterns - it just comes from everywhere. — Lauren Conrad

Leadership is no longer about your position. It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title — Robin Sharma

Difference makers quote No about of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
No about of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. illusions of realityRichard Bach

Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within. — Adi Shankara

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience. — B. F. Skinner

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours. — Zig Ziglar

Different Ages Quotes

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. — C. S. Lewis

When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference? — Frank Costello

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it. — Thomas Paine

Difference makers quote They laugh at me because I am different. I laugh at them because they're all the same.
They laugh at me because I am different. I laugh at them because they're all the same.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world. — Christopher Hitchens

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. — Aldous Huxley

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. — W. Somerset Maugham

Difference makers quote How deep is the mud? Depends on who you ask. We all go through the same stuff differently.
How deep is the mud? Depends on who you ask. We all go through the same stuff differently.

We all have souls of different ages — F. Scott Fitzgerald

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. — George Washington

Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods. — George Burns

The difference in risk between a person whose VO2 max is in the top 2.5% for their age and someone who's in the bottom 25%. It's a 5-fold difference in accruing risk of all-cause mortality. — Peter Attia

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More Difference Makers Quotes

On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker. — Robert K. Greenleaf

The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker... Judging requires a certain impartiality. — Clarence Thomas

Difference makers quote Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story. — Muriel Spark

When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker. — Yasmin Mogahed

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources. — Kristin Scott Thomas

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker. — John C. Maxwell

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live. — Michel de Montaigne

Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved. — Brian Tracy

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did. — Charlize Theron

every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change. — Jane Goodall

Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire. — Zig Ziglar

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers. — Leonardo DiCaprio

The Jemaine [Clement] and Taika works is a very long and slow machine - we put an idea in one end, and it takes about six years to come out the other end. And sometimes it doesn't even come out. And sometimes it comes out as a different idea. So we've out the idea of We're Wolves into the machine, and it's now slowly going through the sausage maker. — Taika Waititi

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us. — Abbas Kiarostami

I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences the way prose writers do but also in lines. So we're doing these two things at the same time. — Billy Collins

I think I'm generally - fear, fear is very still, so in terms of that kind of fear - there's so many different kinds of fear, but fear is something, particularly in movies, that's interesting, because it's created by the film maker, that was created by David Fincher, that's why he's brilliant. — Jake Gyllenhaal

We can make a huge impact. We can be that difference maker just because of our status and because of what we do. I would advise all professional athletes to get involved and to try to help make a difference. If we don't, who else will? — Davone Bess

There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required. — Fred Ritchin

I am myself a professional creator of images, a film-maker. And then there are the images made by the artists I collect, and I have noticed that the images I create are not so very different from theirs. Such images seem to suggest how I feel about being here, on this planet. And maybe that is why it is so exciting to live with images created by other people, images that either conflict with one's own or demonstrate similarities to them. — Thomas Koerfer

People talk differently. You can say some things some places you can't say in other places. But me as a film maker, no words are ever going to be off limits in something I write. As long as people use the words, I'm going to report that. — Dax Shepard

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way. — Paul Caponigro

If you don't love where you are right now, you won't love where you are going. Here is what I know: People who are passionate about what they do every day and love where they are in life are the fortunate ones. They have discovered their purpose. They are the difference makers who fully understand the gift of adding value, and yes, they can't help but love where they are going on their journey. — John C. Maxwell

There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one. — Bruce Cockburn

To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. In all this, there is room for both usefulness and beauty to take their due place, but differently according to differences of activity and object. — Colin Gunton

When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people as pawns on the policy chessboard and recognizing them as the players, the decision-makers, the drivers of policy; autonomous individuals intimately concerned with the direction of their own lives. Under these conditions women, especially, enjoy better health and live fuller lives. — Nafis Sadik

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker. — Scott Berkun

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