Mother Teresa Quotes

Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.

I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or on your own block.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

One man can make a difference and every man should try.

How do we change as a culture, and how do we each individually take responsibility for the one piece of the solution that we are in charge of, and that is our own behavior?

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.

Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

Most politicians will not stick their necks out unless they sense grass-roots support ... neither you nor I should expect someone else to take our responsibility.

I am only one. But I am one. I cannot do everything. But I can do something. What I can do I ought to do. What I ought to do I will do

It always feels good to be a part of something you think could actually impact human beings.

I've still got to do something to help, however tiny it is. I always think of the old Hebrew saying, which is translated roughly into, 'He who saves one life saves the world,' because it's pretty ghastly to think of all the people we're not saving.

I can't save the world, but if I can share some ideas, people might be able to save themselves.

I never sat down and said, 'Now I must make a contribution, that one person can make a difference.' But I felt I was in a position where I could contribute. I never thought of it in the light of history or my brothers. I just felt I had an obligation.

I learned that I can't save the world, but I can help a child at a time.

You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.

I feel like sometimes I'm in a position to really do some good, so I try to do that.

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.