Making A Difference

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. 
- William James 


All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference. 
- Voltaire 


As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, "What is truth?" 
- Richard Whately

Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by. -- 


I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference! --Jack Kerouac


I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference. --Liz Carpenter


I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. --Kareem Abdul-Jabar


I will act as if what I do makes a difference. --William James

If humanity does not opt for integrity,  we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference. --Buckminster Fuller

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito. --Michelle Walker

In golf as in life, it is the follow through that makes the difference. -- Unknown

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame. --Orison Swett Marden

 It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. --Tom Brokaw

It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference. --Bear Bryant

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
-Jenny Craig


It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference. --Zig Ziglar

It's the niceties that make the differencefate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. --Arthur Schopenhauer

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest differencein the quality of your life. --Anthony Robbins

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. -- Voltaire

Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place. Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight. Lend a hand when you can. You can help to make a difference . . . --Robert Alan

The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart. -- Seng-Ts'an

 There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little differenceis attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. --W. Clement Stone

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. --Marian Wright Edelman


We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history. --Sonia Johnson


You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it -- because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?
-- Col. Harland Sanders


You've got to take the initiative and play your game . . . confidence makes the difference.
--Chris Evert Lloyd


I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
--Duke of Wellington


It's a great satisfaction knowing that for a brief point in time you made a difference. --Irene Natividad


Two roads diverged in a woods, and I --/ I took the one less traveled by,/ And that has made all the difference. --Robert Frost


We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right and we made a difference.
--Geraldine A. Ferraro


When it's all over, it's not who you were. . . it's whether you made a difference. --Bob Dole

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Making A Difference