Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

It is not one government or another that can solve all of the problems. It's you.

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

An individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.

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.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have to worry about is big industry. Each individual who tries to make his or her own environment better is useless. I find this criminal, because then you have a billion people all saying, It doesn't matter what I do because I'm just one person. But if you turn that around and a billion people say, What I do does make a difference, then it will make a difference.

Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what's happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do.

Clean up. Clean up, everybody, everywhere. Clean up. Clean up, everybody do your share.

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.

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.

It's very clean in our house.

I really feel like people who want to change things need to go out and change it themselves and not look to politicians to do that.

If you don't think a small act can make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room.

The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.

It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.

Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

I guess one person can make a difference.

Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.

Cleanliness drive is something that has touched every Indian.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!

Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved.