Top 200 Make A Difference Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Change Quotes, Education Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

2. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

3. “We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

4. “Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Care Quotes, Service Quotes

5. “Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Care Quotes, Service Quotes

6. “Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.”

— Jane Goodall

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Care Quotes, Environment Quotes, Volunteer Quotes

7. “I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Volunteer Quotes

8. “Together we can do great things.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Short Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes

9. “Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Care Quotes

10. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

11. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

12. “Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

13. “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”

— John F. Kennedy

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

14. “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Positive Short Quotes, Challenges Quotes

15. “What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.”

— Elie Wiesel

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Hard Hitting Quotes, Silence Quotes, Hurt Quotes

16. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Empowering Quotes

17. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

— Desmond Tutu

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Be Kind Quotes

18. “Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Peace Quotes

19. “Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”

— Michelle Obama

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Changing the World Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Caring Quotes

20. “Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Purpose Quotes

21. “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Values Quotes, Changing the World Quotes

22. “There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

23. “Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.”

— Jane Goodall

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Care Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Changing the World Quotes

24. “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Peace Quotes

25. “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Care Quotes, Service Quotes, Quotes About Giving

26. “Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.”

— Deborah Day

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Care Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Human Nature Quotes

27. “Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.”

— Jane Goodall

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Care Quotes, Service Quotes

28. “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Hard Hitting Quotes, Engagement Quotes

29. “If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes

30. “It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Humanism Quotes

31. “We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Emotion Quotes

32. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”

— Malala Yousafzai

Also featured in: Positive Quotes for Women, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Strong Women Quotes

33. “The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Inspirational Business Quotes, Purpose Quotes

34. “Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.”

— Telle Whitney

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Positive Work Quotes, Diversity Quotes

35. “Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.”

— Simon Sinek

36. “If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve.”

— Jack Ma

Also featured in: Inspirational Business Quotes, Problem-Solving Quotes

37. “If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Humanism Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Quotes About Giving

38. “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Caring Quotes

39. “At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Impact Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes

40. “Poverty is the worst form of violence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Suffering Quotes

41. “Doing good is good for business.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Making Money Quotes

42. “Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.”

— Seth Godin

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Impact Quotes, Engagement Quotes, Marketing Quotes

43. “You need to feel that you’re making a difference.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Positive Quotes for Women, Engagement Quotes

44. “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”

— William Wilberforce

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Justice Quotes

45. “Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.”

— Max Lucado

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Sunday Morning Quotes

46. “Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.”

— Jane Goodall

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

47. “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

— Edmund Burke

48. “Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.”

— George Washington Carver

Also featured in: Don't Give Up Quotes

49. “I guess one person can make a difference.”

— Stan Lee

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Hero Quotes

50. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Happy Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, I Appreciate You Quotes