Top 100 World A Better Place Quotes
#1. I certainly don't think I'm deserving of taking up space forever as a human. There's a whole generation of people yet to be born that are going to be so much more evolved than I am. I don't want to take up space. They're going to be better equipped to make the world a better place than I am.
Ashton Kutcher
#2. I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
Lady Gaga
#3. It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.
Karen Duffy
#4. Do anything that might make the
world a better place for someone
Walter Payton
#5. 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
#6. That is why I took up the gun - not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk ... about how we can make the world a better place.
Peter Van Uhm
#7. I was always 'awake' ... Some part of me clamoring for NEW insights and NEW ways to make the world a better place.
Bill Hicks
#8. Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.
Patricia Cornwell
#10. I came to realize that good and evil were out of my reach, that time was the only thing I had any control over. I could buy time, create intervals. I could not truly make the world a better place, but I could make part of it a better place for a short while.
Sylvain Neuvel
#11. I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
Rosa Parks
#12. Love being different, embrace it, share it, live it because being different is not a curse but a gift we all posses that defines who we are and makes the world a better place.
Katie Chapman
#13. Leadership is a SERVING relationship with OTHERS that inspires THEIR growth and makes the world a better place
Fela Durotoye
#14. We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place.
Astro Teller
#15. We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.
George Soros
#16. There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.
Virginia Clinton Kelley
#17. Come along inside ... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.
Kenneth Grahame
#18. In my work, I present questions and concerns. [It's] the opportunity to put a system of antibodies into circulation, without any pretense of making the world a better place, but to start a conversation with the world.
Paolo Pellegrin
#19. If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.
Timothy Noah
#20. I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?
John Zorn
#21. Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.
Jim Sensenbrenner
#22. Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good ... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
Pope Francis
#23. My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.
Wynton Marsalis
#24. Your children are your legacy to the world. As you raise them with love, you contribute to making this world a better place.
Kristine Carlson
#25. If we all had a little bit of Michael Jackson in us, I think it would make the world a better place.
Tracy Morgan
#26. FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.
Sepp Blatter
#27. 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
#28. I'm starting with the man in the mirror,
I'm asking him to change his ways;
And no message could have been any clearer,
If you wanna make the world a better place,
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change!
Michael Jackson
#29. Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.
Nina Bawden
#30. 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
#31. My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
Carol Moseley Braun
#32. Find what it is you love to do and do it well. Make the world a better place.
Keter Betts
#33. Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.
Jimmy Doolittle
#34. My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
Mandy Patinkin
#35. You are a leader. It is time to lead. You must inspire, you must plan, you must make the world a better place.
Gemma Malley
#36. A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.
Neil Young
#37. Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.
Naveen Jain
#38. if you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make that Change
Michael Jackson
#39. Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect.
Laozi
#40. You can't work on the biceps and ignore the rest of the body, and you can't just say one issue is important when you are looking at how to make the world a better place.
Sophia Bush
#41. The little mutton-chopped man interrupted them to point out that in his opinion good was not the avoidance of evil, but something more positive than that: it was making the world a better place.
Neil Gaiman
#42. The sun shines directly on this great country, and it can be harvested, it's not owned by anybody. It's something the Jews and the Palestinians share and could work together to make the whole world a better place, not just this Middle East stuff, but the whole world.
Sarah Silverman
#43. We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.
Dolores Huerta
#44. Justice doesn't necessarily make the world a better place. Compassion always does.
James Patterson
#45. Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place.
Guy Kawasaki
#46. Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.
Carrie Underwood
#47. My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.
Jon Lovitz
#48. Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place.
Robert Alan Aurthur
#49. Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
Leo Buscaglia
#50. I'd have liked for him to say my name again, though. You know how it is when someone says your name really well, like it means something that makes the world a better place.
Helen Oyeyemi
#51. We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place
or not to bother
Jane Goodall
#52. I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.
L. Ron Hubbard
#53. Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.
Keith Ellison
#54. To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.
Alan Cohen
#55. Imagine yourself at your funeral. Ask yourself what you want your family and friends to say about you. How will you be remembered and what impact will you have had on other people's lives? How did you make the world a better place?
Robert Cheeke
#56. Millions of filmmakers would love to be in my position right now. If you are honest it makes the world a better place. I created the room with my passion and after all these years it finally worked out.
Tommy Wiseau
#57. You have the power to make the world a better place by being kind to someone today
Joyce Meyer
#58. I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
#59. No, she didn't want to find a cure for cancer or make the world a better place for an endangered owl species. She just wanted to be pretty.
Devan Sipher
#60. I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.
Albert Einstein
#61. Goodness makes our world a better place because human beings are kinder to each other when we feel safe and secure.
Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
#62. I believe that every person has a responsibility to leave the world a better place than he found it.
Michelle Hodkin
#63. Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.
Nonie Darwish
#64. Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Moliere
#65. 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.
Gabrielle Giffords
#66. I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need to reach those young explorers and bring them with us on the great adventure of discovery and innovation.
Susan Hockfield
#67. Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.
Rosalynn Carter
#68. Maybe we can't change the world, but we can do our part to make the world a better place for everyone.
Boss Amanishakhete
#70. Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.
Astro Teller
#71. I will make this world a better place, whether they like it or not. That's the fun of being Queen.
Amanda Hocking
#73. I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.
Martina Mcbride
#74. Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And who is really doing things to make the world a better place?
Alex Gibney
#75. It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.
Agapi Stassinopoulos
#76. Play hard, work hard, love hard ... The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of a hoped-for hereafter, and make every day count in some meaningful way and do something-no matter how small it is-to make the world a better place.
Michael Shermer
#77. It's in your hands to make the world a better place.
Nelson Mandela
#78. Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
Isadora Duncan
#79. We should be focused on making the world a better place, and once we do that, the money will come back and find us.
Astro Teller
#80. I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.
Anna Quindlen
#81. Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.
Frank Gehry
#82. If Jesus has to do it all over again, there will be more people shouting "Crucify him".You are not here to make the world a better place. Mark 15:13
Felix Wantang
#83. Growing up with my father's legacy, we never felt that we had to do anything, but we were always raised to think: What could be better than to explore the wonders of the world and share that with people? To try and make the world a better place. And I guess it stuck.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#84. Sometimes, it's really important to move with all deliberate speed. If there is something out there that you want to do to make the world a better place, don't focus on the obstacles. Don't ask for permission. Just dive in. Don't let the naysayers get you down.
John Wood
#85. When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.
Conor Oberst
#86. Missionaries have righteous goals and are trying to make the world a better place. Mercenaries are out for money and power and will run over anyone who gets in the way.
Brad Stone
#87. I see marketing not only as a vital skill for small business success, but more importantly, as a vehicle to create art and connect deeply with and serve others to make the world a better place.
Marie Forleo
#88. The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.
John Mearsheimer
#89. If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.
Dave Sitek
#90. The convictions we need to rally around should be about life giving, community transformation, holistic personal growth, sacrifice, beauty, blessing, and world renewal. Who wouldn't want to be a part of a people committed to something that brings personal meaning and makes the world a better place?
Hugh Halter
#91. I am not inspired by helping you find Chinese food at 2am in Dallas, or swipe right to get laid. I want to use tech and data to make the world a better place.
Nancy Lublin
#92. If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.
David G. McAfee
#93. People want to do something to make the world a better place. They will help when they are invited to.
Clay Shirky
#94. As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
Julie Burchill
#95. I do consider myself to be a positive person. I'd much rather have my energy be focused on trying to make the world a better place, than to be bitter or negative.
Dave Smalley
#96. It's really simple actually. It's just, try and make people happy. Maybe you have to learn with time. Maybe you have to learn it the hard way. But as long as you learn it, you're going to make the world a better place.
Zach Sobiech
#97. The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.
Andrei Codrescu
#98. Put your passions to work to make this world a better place.
Richard Branson
#99. Leadership is not only about producing results or measuring success with statistics. Leadership is doing something with significance that makes families, organizations, societies, nations, and the world a better place before you die.
Farshad Asl
#100. Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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