Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

You do only live once, and I feel like if I'm able to make a difference on this planet and leave it just a little better than I found it, then I've done my job.

I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference.

At the end of the day, when you're trying to do good, that's all that matters. Whether it's in a different aspect than in the N.B.A. or N.F.L., you should use your platform for good.

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

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

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.

I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up!

There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

'Activate Your Goodness' explains how we all have a stake in our collective future, each and every person in their own unique way. As I see it, it is all about personally taking responsibility for our actions, and fully realizing that by thinking good, speaking good and doing good, you can find your place in life.

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

What I keep going back to, and what keeps me going, is trying to do good in whatever little spot of the world we can influence, no matter how small.

I'm using my platform to help out a little bit, you know. It's only right.

I was raised to believe that you need to leave the world a better place than how you found it, as corny as that sounds.

That's what it's all about at the end of the day. What can you do? What difference can you make in the world?

That's what being a human is about, leaving this place better than we got it.

I believe that every single person was brought into this world for a purpose and that we should never leave the world as we found it, we should always strive to make a positive change.

I don't think you have to go out and become Secretary of State or be Bono but I think it's to let people know that whatever they do in their life that that's good.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time.

If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

I always knew that I wanted to do the most that I could for the most people.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

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.