"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

Woodrow Wilson

"Most people are like you and me, or the people across the street or around the world from you and me. Just like you and me, their hearts tell them that somewhere, somehow, they can make a positive difference in the world. "

William Baker

"Don’t just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference."

Denzel Washington

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Jane Goodall

"We can choose to be affected by the world or we can choose to affect the world. "

Heidi Wills

"But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I know best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town too, is large. I had best start with my street. No: my home. No: my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself."

Elie Wiesel

"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."

Leo Rosten

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one."

Marcus Aurelius

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better."

J.K. Rowling

"How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world."

Anne Frank

"The world is not interested in what we do for a living. What they are interested in is what we have to offer freely - hope, strength, love and the power to make a difference! "

Sasha Azevedo

"What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make."

Jane Goodall