Top 58 Leave It Better Than You Found It Quotes

#1. Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.

Jim Rohn

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#2. Leave it better than you found it.

Robert Baden-Powell

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#3. My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

Esai Morales

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#4. I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

Sylvia Earle

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#5. Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.

Patricia Cornwell

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#6. Our job is to leave the world a little better than we found it. Not the same ... not worse ... better.

Gene Simmons

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#7. Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it.

Dean Kamen

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#8. I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.

Ian McKellen

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#9. Don't you see, Stef? It's not that I'm serving Valdemar, it's that I'm helping to preserve the kind of people who leave the world better than they found it, and trying to stop the ones who take instead of giving.

Mercedes Lackey

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#10. Parents are temporary custodians, keeping watch and offering love and trying to leave the child better than they found him.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

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#11. Help the world to become better. Don't leave the world just the same as you have found it - make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful.

Osho

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#12. To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Bill Nye

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#13. To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

Paul Auster

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#14. The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

Mike Huckabee

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#15. President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it,

Sally Jewell

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#16. Always try and leave the world a much better place than you found it!

Timothy Pina

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#17. I believe that every person has a responsibility to leave the world a better place than he found it.

Michelle Hodkin

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#18. One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

Andrew Young

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#19. The greatest thing you will ever give to the world is your committment to leave what you find in better condition than the way you found it. Leave a single light in a place where there was once darkness so those coming behind you may see further and begin where you left.

Tonny K. Brown

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#20. We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

Christopher Dodd

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#21. I wanna leave this world better than I found it. I have the ability to draw people to my comedy shows so I wanna use that blessing not to make money but to make a difference.

Carlos Wallace

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#22. But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and 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.

Baden Powell

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#23. If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it.

Mary Jo Putney

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#24. In the heart of every lawyer, worthy of the name, there burns a deep ambition so to bear himself that the profession may be stronger by reason of his passage through its ranks, and that he may leave the law itself a better instrument of human justice than he found it.

John W. Davis

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#25. Leave this world... a better place than how you found it.

Sarah J. Maas

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#26. We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

Dave Kellett

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#27. Life is a journey, and one thing's for sure: You don't see many hearses with luggage racks on them. We're privileged to be here, so instead of just using God's resources, we should leave the place a little better than we found it - or at least leave it the same ...

Joel Cunningham

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#28. When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people's children, I'm doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.

Marian Wright Edelman

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#29. Don't leave something good to find something better. Once you realize you had the best, the best has found better.

Wiz Khalifa

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#30. We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

George H. W. Bush

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#31. I want to leave New Zealand in better shape than I found it. I know the job of prime minister is not forever and I'm going to do the best I can every day to make that difference.

John Key

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#32. Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it.

Baden Powell

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#33. What does "worth" mean ... ? It means that you leave the world a better place than when you found it.

Terry Pratchett

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#34. Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

David Sarnoff

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#35. An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

Pope Francis

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#36. I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

Prince Charles

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#37. Leave everyone you meet better than you found them. Become an encourager of potential versus a destroyer of confidence.

Robin Sharma

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#38. It is my sincerest hope to leave this world in better shape than which I found it. Everyone says that. However the distinction I feel that is necessary to make is. I hope to leave this world better in spite of my departure, not because of it.

Kay Whitley

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#39. We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

Jeff Merkley

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#40. Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Sarah Palin

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#41. For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Winston Churchill

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#42. Father ... Please help me leave this earth in a better condtion than I found it in!

Timothy Pina

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#43. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Mary Augusta Ward

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#44. As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

Phil Crane

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#45. Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#46. A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

Cornel West

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#47. Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Chesley Sullenberger

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#48. Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?
Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it.
Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.

Evelyn Waugh

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#49. I had violated one of Ross Jeffries's only ethical rule of seduction: Leave her better than you found her.

Neil Strauss

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#50. I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

Cornel West

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#51. To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

Steven Soderbergh

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#52. It's your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.

Ronda Rousey

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#53. We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.

Tim McIlrath

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#54. When I die, the world dies with me. I'd really like to leave it better than how I found it and I'm doing what I can to effect that.

Henry Rollins

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#55. Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it ...

Wilferd Peterson

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#56. Everyone needs to find the one thing that brings out her passion. It's what we do and share with the world that matters. I believe it's important that we leave our communities in better shape than we found them.

Beth Hoffman

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#57. Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

Marvin J. Ashton

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#58. You do only live once, and I feel like if I'm able to make a difference on this planet and leave it just a little better than I found it, then I've done my job.

Bindi Irwin

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