World Better Place Quotes

#1. The world would be a better place for man, if man were not in it.

Allyson Jones

#2. I'm not a bad person. I haven't killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don't kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

Gena Showalter

#3. Why live if you can't help others and make the world a better place?

Ben Mikaelsen

#4. I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

Banksy

#5. If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

Mariska Hargitay

#6. You can't make the world perfect, Daniel," Michelle said calmly while dusting dirt off her jeans with her delicate hand.
"No. I can't," I agreed. "But I can sure help make it better.

Shannon A. Thompson

#7. what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

David Lagercrantz

#8. And these [pharmaceutical] companies are still threatening to sue. And it's like, you know, do you not have a conscience? Do you not want the world to be a better place? You're still making a profit. How much more of a profit do you want to make?

Elton John

#9. If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.

Dalai Lama

#10. A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.

Marco Rubio

#11. Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. In a way, they're all trying to improve the world. And I think that those basic choices make the world a better place.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs.

Neneh Cherry

#13. We are called to make the world a better place, people - happier.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Ben West points out that even from a selfish perspective, earning to give allows you to have things that people believe make them happy, like money and a high-status job, while still getting the fulfillment that comes from knowing you are helping to make the world a better place.

Peter Singer

#15. When we stop believing the world can become a better place, when we stop caring about the lives and conditions of others, we lose a part of ourselves.

Erwin McManus

#16. I have a problem with the term social entrepreneurship because people say only business helps to make the world a better place.

Sabriye Tenberken

#17. Pets make the world a better place to live.

Susan W. Lyons

#18. Government should allow people to go out and do the things Americans have always done, create jobs and prosperity. And America's role in the world - the world is a safer and better place when America is the strongest country in the world.

Marco Rubio

#19. It could be anything, give a homeless guy a sandwich, help an old lady across the street like anything to make this world a better place. If everybody just did one good thing for another person like a selfless good deed just think about how much a better place this would be.

Frank Iero

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

Terry Pratchett

#21. Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.

Dean Karnazes

#22. I believe in the power of women. As nurturers, we have a unique ability to care and share and make the world a better place. Women Who Inspire are women who are making a difference.

Donna Karan

#23. I want to continually find ways to bring my ideas off the stage and into the real world, into the streets. I think I can make the world a better place, if only for a little while.

Kurt Braunohler

#24. By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world ... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?

Rick Danko

#25. The World will be a better place when everybody's beige.

Suzanne White

#26. If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place,

Nick Vujicic

#27. The world would be a far better place if more people listened to the wisdom of Hawkeye Pierce.

Michel Templet

#28. I want to experience the world. How can I be sure if my place on earth is supposed to be here or there, if I have never gone to there? I know all about here, am literally bored shitless with it. What if there, is better?

Simon Williams

#29. A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window ... I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.

Garry Disher

#30. This is the first place in the United States where I sang, and I like San Francisco better than any other city in the world. I love no city more than this one. Where else could I sing outdoors on Christmas Eve?

Luisa Tetrazzini

#31. Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.

Jef Mallett

#32. I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring ... The more boring the better.

Evan Davis

#33. I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

Paulo Coelho

#34. What is the point of living this beautiful life if you do not have a mission that ends up making the world a better place to live.

Manoj Arora

#35. The only way we can make this world a better place is to transcend it.

Radhanath Swami

#36. My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.

Wynton Marsalis

#37. I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place.

Beeban Kidron

#38. And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.

Robert Regis Dvorak

#39. The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

Leonard Woolf

#40. It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#41. You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?

Daniel Clowes

#42. ... She might have thought that it was the case, that all things worked out in the end, and that the world was a benevolent place, but she knew better now, and had to fake it.

Emma Straub

#43. I believe that today's businesses - regardless of their size - must be prepared to do good in societies around the globe. I am cautiously optimistic that we can make the world a far better, safer and more equitable place - but business and enterprise must sit at the heart of this process.

Richard Branson

#44. If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be a more peaceful, better place where success in all forms is abundant and available to all. (A Gift to My Children)

Jim Rogers

#45. I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the world a better place.

Seth Berkley

#46. I thought of him as a beautiful deer in the forest that made this world a better place simply by existing; I didn't need it in my living room hanging off the wall.

Rainbowbrook

#47. The free market is constantly under attack from those who believe that they know how to make the world a better place with properly administered doses of state coercion.

George Leef

#48. Often what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging pathway to a far better place.

Karen Salmansohn

#49. You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.

Isabel Wilkerson

#50. We don't do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making the world a better place, saving the lives of innocents, and being better than you are.

Derek Landy

#51. Make the world a better place one person at a time. Start with yourself

Linda Poindexter

#52. If Kindness could be passed along, unrestrainedly, as forward messages,
the World would be a better place.

Joan Ambu

#53. I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

Clare Balding

#54. What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

Winston Churchill

#55. [T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism.

Rebecca Solnit

#56. Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Manners aren't anything but a polite person being nice, no matter what everyone else is doing. But they make the world a better place, Sugar Honey, you can trust me on that.

Sarah-Kate Lynch

#57. I'm very encouraged by millennials and their drive to make the world a better place.

John Mackey

#58. Find calmness in storms. Find beauty in ugliness. Find peace in the midst of war. Now expand it. Only people with a higher consciousness can do this. It will make the world a better place for mankind.

Debasish Mridha

#59. If every mortal looked at others as their friends, not as their enemies, the world would be a much better place, wouldn't it?

Morgan Rhodes

#60. The number is not important to me. I only wish I had killed more. Not for bragging rights, but because I believe the world is a better place without savages out there taking American lives.

Chris Kyle

#61. Travis Alexander was a good guy. Was he a saint? No. But he was somebody who was really, really invested in helping other people and making this world a better place. Everything he did, even the car he drove, was a sign of him trying to be a force for good in this world.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#62. I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.

Stellan Skarsgard

#63. It was better to see clearly. Even the ugliness of the world had its place. Eventually,

T. Frohock

#64. The simple act of smiling at people makes the world a better place. Unless it's the day you decide to walk around with your dong out.

Dana Gould

#65. I keep thinking about all the time away from my family this will cause, and the time away from the other family at Pixar," Jobs said. "But the only reason I want to do it is that the world will be a better place with Apple in it.

Walter Isaacson

#66. And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

James Lee Burke

#67. The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

Bruce Mau

#68. Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.

Daniel H. Pink

#69. To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.

Sam Harris

#70. 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

#71. The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all - today HIV/AIDS is the biggest threat to this one universal objective. UNICEF needs us all to help them change the world for children

Liam Neeson

#72. The Met is such a powerful place for me because it's a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world. And when you're dealing with ancient mythology, trying to put a modern spin on it, you really can't do much better than to call on the Met.

Rick Riordan

#73. Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.

Sung Kang

#74. With more money, you can take better care of yourself and leverage your passion and higher purpose in the world. Earn more, so you can give more of yourself and put your money to work for causes that make our world a better place.

John Assaraf

#75. The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

Sidney Sheldon

#76. Nanotechnology is really interesting to me. Stuff to sort of make our world a better place, and a cleaner place, through science. And it also explains things that are happening. I've always been into it.

Jessica Alba

#77. I wouldn't say I wanna conquer the world anymore. But I want to be a part of making the world a better place. I want to inspire people and I wanna be part of the solution.

Madonna Ciccone

#78. Why is it, Caesar, that there's always a man like Lucius Metellus?" "If there were not, Antonius, this world might work better. Though if this world worked better, there'd be no place in it for men like me," said Caesar.

Colleen McCullough

#79. Plant a seed of greatness in your children. Speak a word of encourgement to someone who needs to hear it. Inspire someone to be a better person. One day you'll reap a harvest, and your world will become a better place to live.

George Foreman

#80. Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

William McDonough

#81. You make this world better by changing your thoughts and by becoming better.

Debasish Mridha

#82. 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. In Louis Chen's case, he sometimes says my name as if it were a lesser-known word for bacon.

Helen Oyeyemi

#83. Creation was not finished at the dawn of this earth, but creation continues, and we have a lot to do to make the world a better place.

George Cadle Price

#84. I think I preferred him jaded. The world might be a better place were it ruled by disappointed souls.

Anthony Ryan

#85. At the end of our life, we ought to be able to look back over it from our deathbed and know somehow the world is a better place because we lived, we loved, we were other-centered, other-focused.

Joe Ehrmann

#86. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all ...

Muhammad Ali

#87. I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

Michael Moore

#88. The world would be a vastly better place if people saw their need for God and accepted Him as Savior and Lord. And then lived by His rule of Love being the most important thing. Can you imagine the world if everyone was motivated by love for others?

Mary Engelbreit

#89. Those who want to learn more than bread and butter shall be able to make this world a better place ...

Dinesh Kumar

#90. I think the power of a grandchild is it taps an instinct that people later in life also have towards ... the world of nonprofits or charities. They want to leave a better place.

David Eisenhower

#91. In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

Liya Kebede

#92. Ben Says: We can only help better humanity if we better ourselves first. Education, diligence, passion, charity~helping all we can, when we can...will go a long way towards making our world a better place.

Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben

Timothy Pina

#93. In the whole world, there was no better place than being wrapped in him.

Ilona Andrews

#94. Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in service to humanity or the democracy.

Andrew Young

#95. I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist ... as somebody who's trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That's the version of capitalism that we want.

Guy Spier

#96. The world would be a rather better place if we looked only for God in one another.
Harry Cavendish

Deanna Raybourn

#97. People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.

Tim Harford

#98. I'm very aware that just driving blindly towards money won't get me anything. I drive blindly towards making the world a better place.

Jill Soloway

#99. I want to make everyone happy. Because I truly believe that the world is a better place if everyone is happy and smile and CARE for one another

Ryo

#100. 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