Thomas Huxley Quotes

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.

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.

Every day, all of us at Gannett are given the rare and sacred opportunity to affect change for the good in the communities we serve, to make life better for the people who trust us to know them and do right by them.

I get up each and every day trying to do my level best to make Victoria a better place.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

In my youngest days, the nuns at my grammar school drummed into us that we were in this world to make it a better place - not just for ourselves, but for other people, too. So from the very beginning, I've been driven by this idea that we have to make a difference, and it's one of the reasons I went into law in the first place.

I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

I will do everything I can in future to help this great country succeed.

I've always had this sense of responsibility to do what I can to help fix the world and help make this a better place to live.

I want to be the light of my city.

I think it's my responsibility, as a person of influence... to sometimes try to do what I can.

I learned that I can't save the world, but I can help a child at a time.

City of Los Angeles is my home, and it is my duty to lead by example, contribute all that I can, and help make the world a better place with the tools and resources available to me.

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

I am really intense and passionate about the things I believe in and about engaging and improving the quality of life for not only my constituents but everyone.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

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.

You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.

It doesn't matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to give back.

Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser.

I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.