Stan Lee Quotes

The cumulative effect of each person making a change in his or her own life will make a difference.

One person really can make a difference.

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.

I really believe in the power of the individual to make change, and our family is a real collection of individuals.

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.

Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

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

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

People don't believe that their actions really and truly are going to make a difference. But kids get it. They know. And they get all excited about the difference they're making.

Every individual can make a difference every day by making conscious choices.

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.

Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you can start small, and that's just as important.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents.

One man can make a difference and every man should try.

As a child, I had a teacher who told me, 'Look, Anne, one person can't make a difference.'

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

When you've wised up enough, there is a very clear conclusion that you have to reach after a while, which is, at the end of the day, it is really impossible for one person to make a difference.