Nelson Mandela Quotes

We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.

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

By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?

Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause, incredible things will happen in the world you live in.

It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place

If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own communities, their own businesses and their own governments, then we can really transform the prospects of life on this planet. We can find ourselves living in a world that is more like the world that I think most of us want to be living in.

Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

The world's becoming a better place, and again it is up to us to make sure we're doing the right things.

I think young people can make such an extraordinarily important difference in making this world a better place.

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

The main objective - our soul is our people. And our job is to enrich their lives, change the world. And so I think that's the bigger pressure you put on yourself.

There's only so many guys on a football team that really have a voice. So anytime you have a microphone, you should use it for the betterment of humanity, for the betterment of this country, for the betterment of our kids coming up behind us, for the future of the world. Why not? Make the world a better place.

I always go back to the fact that one man can make a difference. No matter what the issue, we always have the power to change it.

I'd like to say that people... people can change anything they want to; and that means everything in the world. Show me any country and there'll be people in it. And it's the people that make the country. People have got to stop pretending they're not on the world... It's time to take that humanity back into the center of the ring and follow that for a time... Think on that. Without people you're nothing.

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)

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

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

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.