Clara Hughes Quotes

Like many young people, I believe I have potential to make a positive impact in the world.

Usually I try to represent my community and my culture the best that I can, but I go about every day just trying to represent my family. I'm just trying to make a difference out in the world. I don't even look at, necessarily, just the Latin community, I'm looking at everything in general.

I don't think of myself as a powerful person. But I do use the platforms I have to make a difference in the world. Anyone who has a position where they can make a difference should use it.

We all need to kind of preach to ourselves. I grew up in church, and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and the community in the city that you're in or the town that you're in and live effectively and be informed and be gracious with people.

If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

I don't want a gamer to feel like they have to commit their whole life to changing the world.

Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about building the man and the woman and doing so with a view to creating better citizens and, by extension, better patriots in this society of ours.

It's important to think about the bigger picture, especially if we are given these platforms. We can make a difference.

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world.

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.