Making Impact Quotes

Making an impact behind the scenes with 'Be-A-Star' and 'Make-A-Wish,' how cool is it to do those things?

Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.

Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There's just too much at stake.

Always when I play I want to play well and make a difference.

I don't go in the studio to make music that won't matter. I go in every night to try to make a point and make the best music that I can make.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

We all have something to offer. It's so important to be able to step out of our comfort zone and share the benefit of our experience with others who are trying to find their way. You can make a real difference and have real impact. I haven't experienced anything more satisfying than that.

You have to know what you're doing to help people and have an important stance in life. You can only do that by staying focused, and I can't lose focus for a second.

When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

My dad's career in politics, along with that of my grandfather, Prescott Bush, taught us that good people motivated by helping others can jump into the political fray and make a positive difference.

I used to think that success was being the number one, being everywhere, being the star, and nowadays, I think that success is to make big things happen.

Get a job and when you earn a little bit of money, then you can do more good. Then bringing your values doesn't mean you have to compromise yourself. You got to get over this idea that you can't work for a big corporation, or for big oil or bigger pharma, because actually, those are some of the great jobs are and you can do good there.

Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool.

Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?

I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.

I’ve got one shot going through this life. I want to make sure I do as much as I can.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

When Apple looks at what categories to enter, we ask these kinds of questions: What are the primary technologies behind this? What do we bring? Can we make a significant contribution to society with this? If we can't, and if we can't own the key technologies, we don't do it.

We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.

The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.