Gloria Steinem Quotes

We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.

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.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

I'm very aware that just driving blindly towards money won't get me anything. I drive blindly towards making the world a better place.

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.

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

All we can do is just think about what we can put into the world - not really kind of what we can get out of it.

Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.

Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world.

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.

Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

The idea that I can touch anybody's life in any way is perfect.

I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.