Leave A Mark On The World Quotes

#1. We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

Wallace Stegner

#2. I was born Ezeogo Igariwey to live my life a legacy for the world,like a wound that healed with a scar that remains."My legacy will leave a mark on the world and I shall never be forgetten for my good,bad,and ugly deeds.

Tupac Shakur

#3. What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a mark on the world? Our hottest arguments were always about how we could contribute. We did not care about the rewards. We were young and earnest.

Wallace Stegner

#4. Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark on the world.

Enock Maregesi

#5. I wanted to leave a mark on the world. Doesnt matter how big. I just wanted to make a mark in peoples lives.

Megan Young

#6. All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world ...

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#7. And in the end,
she left a scar
and I knew that was
how she wanted to
be remembered.

She wanted to leave
her mark in the
world
without getting
her heart too
attached to it.

Robert M. Drake

#8. Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#9. Sometimes I don't think I've done anything to leave my mark in this world. I'm the kind of person the world leaves a mark on.

Chris Offutt

#10. I will not be defined by the marks left on me by the world, but by the mark I leave on the world (referring to the facial scars he still carries from his successful 1991 battle against cancer, which caused him to be turned down for a customer service job because he was "too ugly").

James Houston Turner

#11. Everyone wants to leave an extraordinary life.

John Green

#12. If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

Maya Angelou

#13. Life is so bloody hard. I don't want the whole struggle to be pointless. If I'm going to get crap thrown at me from great heights my whole life, well, I want to damn well make sure I leave a mark on this world in exchange for all the misery.

Holly Bourne

#14. Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

Nora Roberts

#16. Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

Elizabeth George

#17. Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name.

Big Sean

#18. The path you create for yourself is the mark you leave behind when you're gone from this world. All beauty and angst is stopped by the grave. But your words, your laughter, your faith, and spirit, refuse to die with you. They remain in the hearts and minds of those you touched.

Eric Onyango Otieno

#19. Most people leave this world without leaving any mark on, it isn't because they were lazy, but because they were working hard with their focus dispensed in many things.

Divine K. Kpe

#20. I want to be respected. I want to be powerful. And yes, I want to be special. I want to leave a mark on this world so no one forgets who I was.

Morgan Rhodes

#21. Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy
they should be about what mark you leave in the world.

Claire Cross

#22. Most people don't leave their mark on the world through big miracles. Some do," she added quickly. "But sometimes the biggest impact is made by a series of small, quiet things.

Richelle Mead

#23. I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD) got to me as it gets to almost everyone in this country.

Mark Bittman

#24. How can I leave my mark on the world, I thought, unless I get out there first and see it?

Phil Knight

#25. I've been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere.

Nikki Rowe

#26. Before leaving the world, leave a profound positive mark of love upon the world.

Debasish Mridha

#27. Every once in a while your world stands still ... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.

Art Buchwald

#28. There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.

Mark Lawrence

#29. This is how we leave the world,
with the heart weeping,
and the hope that distance
brings the solving wonder
of one last clear view
before that long sleep
about the weather's changes

Mark Haddon

#30. My advice: If you every have the chance to change the world, don't hesitate. Leave your great big mark.

Shannon Hale

#31. Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies.

Kristen Schaal

#32. Our birthday is celebrated every year to commemorate the very first instant we came into the world, and a funeral is held to mark the day we leave it. But lately I've been wondering ... what can be said of all the moments in between our birth and our death? The moments when we are reborn ...

Taylor Swift

#33. The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.

Sarah Shahi

#34. We might not be able to change the entire world but we can surely leave a mark by positively touching people's lives one at a time.

Lyra Parish

#35. My prayers and dreams are wrapped up together, vague and contradictory. "Let me leave my mark in the world," I say to the air around me. I don't want to feel so invisible, yet I'm torn between wishing to move away from this place and wanting it to be me and I it.

Laurel Corona

#36. I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

Libba Bray

#37. Almost everyone is obsessed about leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.
I want to leave a mark.

John Green

#38. Men who leave their mark on the world are very often those who, being gifted and full of nervous power, are at the same time haunted and driven by a dominant idea, and are therefore within a measurable distance of insanity.

Francis Galton

#39. It seems fitting that the blow would leave a mark on both of us. That's how the world works.

Veronica Roth

#40. I think I just want to leave my mark in some way. I hope I leave the world a better place than it was when I came, and I think the best way I can do that is through acting and writing, and hopefully it will make a difference someday.

Chris Colfer

#41. It's perhaps more laudable simply to keep heading out into the world than always tilting to leave one's mark on it.

Chang-rae Lee

#42. Powerful people come from all walks of life and leave their mark upon the world in a variety of ways. But one thing is common to them all. They move through the world with pure vitality. It is as though all their switches have been turned on.

Chris Kilham