David Nicholls Quotes

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

I'll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference.

Although it sounds cliche, the main thing I want to do is touch people with what I do. I want everything I do to be meaningful, and I want it to be about more than just myself, or the money.

Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

Make a difference no matter what role you play

You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids.

If you want to be immortal, do something useful in your lifetime.

Your legacy makes a difference.

When I leave this world, I don't want to leave just having a well-known name but having made a difference.

At the end of my life, I just want to make sure I made a big difference in this world.

I just want to do something meaningful in the world. I want to contribute positively. That means the roles I get to play as well.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

It's a big thing to feel like you're doing something that's actually affecting people.

You need to feel that you're making a difference.

Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.

Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.