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reflect about what it would take to make the world a better place, to make things right.


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A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
ANKITA SINGHAL If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.
MICHAEL JACKSON To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.
ALAN COHEN Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take fr...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.
ROSALYNN CARTER Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a be...
TIA MOWRY If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world ...
WILLIAM GLASSER Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is t...
ISADORA DUNCAN You know, I cannot or ever will make the world a better place to live. But I can help other people h...
DANNY GREEN You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the wo...
PAUL ALLEN I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make...
NAYVADIUS CASH The simplest way to better the world is one good deed at a time.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a...
BARBARA KRUGER Yes, I did want to make the world a better place.
BILL BOOTH Take your dreams off the ground to the clouds of business where your products will contribute to mak...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR They are seeing examples of what it takes to be good citizens, and what leaders are doing to try to ...
TOM WELCH Sometimes you wish the world would be a better place and sometimes you wish the world was a better p...
JAMMY CREAMER We are called to make the world a better place, people - happier.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY Geniuses can make the world a better place or make it fall apart alongside their own minds.
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ART MACIAS I am here not to save money but to make more of it to empower the people and make the world a better...
SAMINU KANTI You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person.
SCOTT SORRELL We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here,
JIMMY DOOLITTLE Your time is a great asset, use it to better your life and make the World a better, safer, and peace...
SOTONYE ANGA Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.
SUNG KANG Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place. Stand up for the thin...
ROBERT ALAN We all belong to the world, and the world belongs to us all.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
BANKSY I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the wo...
PATRICK SOON-SHIONG It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable ...
SCOTT PETERS Be an initiator of change. Keep improving... To change is to improve; to become excellent is to keep...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the wo...
ALEXIS STEWART Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLI Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE I think both ways are ways to make the world a better place and to reduce the suffering.
WILLIAM FLEESON To transform the world, help people, lift others up, change lives.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I know a lot of things about what people say about Judge Burke, and I know how he is. I get along wi...
JOHN BRYSON Your purpose is to make this world a better place than the one you were born into
EMILY BLAKEMAN Everything we do should be an avenue to touch lives and make the world a better place
SUNDAY ADELAJA I predict all of us will continue to find ways to make this world a better place.
BOB WATT Most often we keep looking for external things to make us feel better. It maybe a new gadget, clothe...
AVIJEET DAS Most often we keep looking for external things to make us feel better. It maybe a new gadget, clothi...
AVIJEET DAS Most often we keep looking for external things to make us feel better. It maybe a new gadget, clothi...
AVIJEET DAS You make the world a better place by making daily improvements to become the best version of yoursel...
ROY T. BENNETT I actually think we made it better without succumbing to other people's idea about what would make i...
TERRY GILLIAM I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children...
ORLANDO BLOOM I was born to make music, really I have no choice. There are certain things I have to live with and ...
J. LOREN WINCE If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place.
MIKE LOVE It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only ...
LOUIS SACHAR It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only ...
OLD CHINESE PROVERB I figure there's nothing better to do than help kids get through a hard time. This helps make the wo...
DENISHA REMBLE Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.
CHRIS ROCK We just need to find a way to make things go right. It's all about us doing the right things. We hav...
BRANDON STOCKTON Don't Just Let it Happen, Make it Happen!
JUAN A. JIMENEZ Help the world to become better. Don't leave the world just the same as you have found it - make it ...
OSHO The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use i...
LADY GAGA We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother
JANE GOODALL Let us take up the burden of the fallen, set our hand to the task they left unfinished. Let us, with...
BOB COOMBES It was his passion. He truly wanted to make it a better place.
JOHN SULLIVAN I want to be out there on the firing line, helping, directing or doing something to try to make this...
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will b...
ISABEL ALLENDE There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the...
VIRGINIA KELLEY Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.
KENNETH GRAHAME i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL If everyone decided to forgive at least one person who hurt them by the end of the year, the world w...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It will take among other things changes in government to make workers feel secure enough to exercise...
LOUIS MALIZIA A lot of it (getting the steals) was someone else would put pressure on the ball which would make it...
AMANDA WOLKE So you’re telling me it’s okay to make these promises, place rings on each other’s fingers, ma...
KAT T. MASEN And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY Life isn't about your age. Life is about what you are willing to do right now to make this world a b...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a b...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN He was very concerned about his family. But as a soldier, he was ready to step up and do his duty. H...
BOB KING I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the w...
TIM HARFORD There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any f...
TARSEM SINGH Move forward doesn´t mean avoiding the pain,
but look towards a new day in spite of the rain.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Your insides will rally to solve a problem that is yours to solve. And, by solving a central problem...
CLIFF HAKIM My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and worki...
MARIO CUOMO The things that may change our world to make better; smiling, helping, respecting, loving & forg...
HUSSEIN ABDALLAH Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a b...
KID ROCK If sunlight helps plants grow, imagine what your inner light can help flourish.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO In the comics, it always seems like they are trying to save
the world. It seemed like one shoul...
ASHLEE VANCE You want to make the most of those opportunities. I got a great pass and got Burke sliding.
PATRICE BERGERON I'm starting with the man in the mirror,
I'm asking him to change his ways;
And no message...
MICHAEL JACKSON I mean, I don’t know how the world broke. And I don’t know if there’s a God who can help us fi...
RACHEL COHN We all want to win against all odds. We all want to be loved. We all wish it was possible to change ...
KATE FORSYTH Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.
THE BEATLES My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He ...
WYNTON MARSALIS I wasn't trying to stall, but I wanted to make sure we were in the right place against the zone. It ...
GINGER FORD You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a wo...
SARAH DESSEN Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time was...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA Our work is really about taking the best of what is in a place and working that into a project. We'd...
CURTIS W. FENTRESS Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwhole...
J.R. MILLER It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to m...
KAREN DUFFY When you boast in your charity works,you are indirectly challenging others to be charitable,which wi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) No need to make PROMISES you don't want to make. Better to LISTEN to your HEART and do what you FEEL...
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EDMUND BURKE Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.
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EDMUND BURKE The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno...
EDMUND BURKE Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our...
EDMUND BURKE People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin...
EDMUND BURKE Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society...
EDMUND BURKE Custom reconciles us to everything.
EDMUND BURKE Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the ...
EDMUND BURKE Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ...
JAMES BURKE All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...
EDMUND BURKE Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting ...
EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manho...
EDMUND BURKE Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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