Top 100 Leave The World Quotes
#1. It's not always about tomorrow and the day after that - what we achieve over the years and how we leave the world. Sometimes it's about today.
Carrie Ryan
#3. If you sought to leave the world, don't go alone. Since there are too many bad people you can take them too.
M.F. Moonzajer
#4. Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it.
Baden Powell
#5. What does "worth" mean ... ? It means that you leave the world a better place than when you found it.
Terry Pratchett
#6. 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
#7. Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.
Jef Mallett
#8. In the end we're all janitors and if we can leave the world a little better, a little cleaner, then our lives were worth living." ~*~
Frank Dorn
#9. Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing
Duane Allman
#10. 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
#11. I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one's own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. The wheel turns. Blue above, green below, we wander a long way, but love is what the cup of our soul contains when we leave the world and the flesh.
Louise Murphy
#13. Influencers refuse to leave the world they way they found it. They leave a legacy.
Johnny Hunt
#14. I can't think of a better rationale to create a work of art. I don't care what form one's art takes, it has to be an attempt to leave the world a better place than it was before we got here or it's not doing its job. And I don't mean just making things that are pretty.
Charles De Lint
#15. We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.
Niall Williams
#16. All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.
Arnold Friberg
#17. I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different ...
Joss Whedon
#18. That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#19. The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and laughed in surprise as he found himself turning into the night, the starlight, the air ... and then he was gone, leaving behind such a vivid little burst of happiness.
Philip Pullman
#21. Everybody dies. Just as everything created is eventually destroyed.
Then what's the point of anything?
The point? Walk the world. Help to feed the hungry, help comfort those in pain. Do what you can to leave the world a better place.
Neil Gaiman
#22. As soon as I leave the world [of the show], I want to turn around and come back. That's how real it is. As soon as I leave the theater I want to wake up and come back the next day and do it all over again. It's that much fun.
Victoria Clark
#23. I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.
Suzi Quatro
#24. This is the first language of your body. It is the word ne. When you bleed each month, as when the moon comes and goes in its journey, you leave the world of men. You enter the body of all women, who are connected to all of nature.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#25. Such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, - ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt called upon to produce.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#26. And at the last, a war between magic and science that would leave the world in ashes. At the center of all this were a man and a woman, who were still children now.
Charlie Jane Anders
#27. To die was not to leave the world, not to escape somewhere else; it was the simultaneous change of every piece of yourself into nothing.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#28. 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
#29. I don't believe that life can be counted by years or days, but by experience and how you leave the world by the way you live.
Jerri Nielsen
#30. To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. To find one's purpose is to discover one's worth, discern one's direction, wholly dedicate oneself to the journey, and forge an unbending determination that I will not leave the world the way I found it. This week's blog outlines the finding of our purpose.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#32. We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.
Neil Gaiman
#33. Develop a cause beyond yourself. Try to leave the world a better place because you were here.
Joe Ehrmann
#34. A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
Cornel West
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.
Aga Khan IV
#38. Most religions are concerned about what happens when you die, about going somewhere better than here as a reward for faithful service or whatever you want to call it. Paganism teaches that being here is the reward, and that we need to make the most of it and leave the world a better place.
Michael Thomas Ford
#39. It's your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.
Ronda Rousey
#40. We forgot that many, if not most accomplishments will not leave the world a better place, which begs the question of whether they are really accomplishments at all.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.
Thomas Jefferson
#42. And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make good art.
Neil Gaiman
#43. I'm inclined to think that, because it's such an awful life, that politicians do go into it for the best reasons. I mean, some may love the sound of their own voice. But it's such a wearying life, you've got to be impelled by some desire to leave the world a better place than when you came into it.
Richard Eyre
#44. Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
Dante Alighieri
#45. I have tried hard to be a good person and to leave the world a better place. To feel that I have in any small way succeeded is to me a prize beyond measure, the most wonderful wealth that I could ask for, a form of prosperity that I would wish for the whole world to experience and enjoy.
Roz Savage
#46. Crowns and thrones are all bodies which rise and perish and leave the world as it is.
Auliq Ice
#47. My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
Jim Henson
#48. I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#49. 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
#50. All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.
Debby Ryan
#51. Babies arrive into the world crying and old people leave the world while others cry for them. Everything in between was colored by those two pillars ,she concluded early on.The capstone of human existence was sadness.
K.J. Kilton
#52. There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
Elizabeth I
#53. May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here.
Ronald Reagan
#54. 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
#55. What lasting impact will I make on the world and those around me? What will I live my life for? How will I be remembered? I want to leave the world a better place than it was when I got here. I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.
Theo Rossi
#56. I don't want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what's happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go
Mitch Albom
#57. Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.
Patricia Cornwell
#58. Today I want to leave the world
I want to leave the pain
Leave the heartache
I know where it is going
I want to see my Savior
April Nichole
#59. Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#60. Always try and leave the world a much better place than you found it!
Timothy Pina
#61. In the end, the best for which one could hope was to leave the world in better straits than existed on the day of your birth; to truly have lived. And oh, how Cannan, the Captain of the Guard, had lived.
Cayla Kluver
#62. To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
Paul Auster
#63. To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.
Bill Nye
#64. It will be easy for you to leave the world with its pleasures if your heart is filled with great love for the King.
Sunday Adelaja
#65. 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
#66. I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
Gabrielle Giffords
#67. Mozart, who was buried in a pauper's grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer - that is the ultimate success.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#68. Even after a thousand pages we don't want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people who live there.
Stephen King
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. We have forgotten that our sovereign duty is to leave the world in a better condition than when we each entered it
Michael Tsarion
#72. Our job is to leave the world a little better than we found it. Not the same ... not worse ... better.
Gene Simmons
#73. 87. That I might drink and leave the world unseen, and with thee fade away into the forest dim: Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget what thou among leaves hast never known, the weariness, the fever and the fret.
John Keats
#74. I shall leave the world, I feel, with more satisfaction for having come to know you. Knowing you persuades me more than the Bible of our immortality
Herman Melville
#75. I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.
Alexander Dolgun
#76. I watch Jace Herondale play, and I see the ghosts that rise up in the music. Don't you?" "Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world." "Yes," she said. I just wish he were here to see this with us, just here with us one more time.
Cassandra Clare
#77. By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.
Dean Koontz
#78. Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?
Nora Roberts
#79. I want to leave the world a better place for horses and people.
Monty Roberts
#80. I could leave the world of the book enthralled and inspired, but the real world awaited me, to caress or to kick me; reality was a powerful force that could not be ignored.
Sara Niles
#81. The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.
Andrei Codrescu
#82. You're trying to just leave the world a little better.
Cornel West
#83. There are certain people that are so much a part of you, that are so loved, that they shine up your insides just by being around. They fill in all your parts that feel empty. And when they leave the world, you don't know how to be without them.
Jessica Lawson
#84. In the way this strange gentleman was going on, he would leave the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else.
Jules Verne
#85. Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.
Henry David Thoreau
#86. If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it.
Mary Jo Putney
#87. I want to leave the world as I entered it: naked and crying in a room full of strangers.
Dana Gould
#88. We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.
Blythe Danner
#89. We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.
Dave Kellett
#90. He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
Marcus Aurelius
#91. And in busy London there now grew up one of the greatest gifts that the English genius was to leave the world. For in the reign of Elizabeth I began the first and greatest flowering of the glorious English theatre.
Edward Rutherfurd
#92. Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive
If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy.
William Shakespeare
#93. Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world
Cassandra Clare
#94. When loved ones die, people always say, "Don't be sad. I'm sure they would have wanted you to be happy." I'm sure that's true. But let's be realistic here, people also want to be missed. It is every person's nightmare to leave the world behind as if they had never been there at all.
Esther Earl
#95. It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
Carolyn Wheat
#96. You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.
Johannes Tauler
#97. Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man's attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.
Neville Goddard
#98. Monasticism is really based on the idea that if you leave people, you leave the spirit of the world. But you do not. You can leave the world in a physical sense, you can leave the crowd and the people; but there in your lonely cell the spirit of the world may still be with you.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#99. We are all visitors in the world and we are crowned guests invited to feast. We depart from the world and leave the world the way we found it. We could own the world yet the world is our master.
David Ssembajjo
#100. Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
Neil Gaiman
