Robert Gossett Quotes

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

It's very human to want to make an impact, to contribute to the world. But it's hard to know the how and why. Like, 'Will my small thing make a difference?'

You really can change the world if you care enough.

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

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?

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

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

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.

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.

I believe in having an impact in doing things.

Like many young people, I believe I have potential to make a positive impact in the world.

My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.

The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily, does not wait to be done by perfect men.

No one is too young to do the right thing.

If you embrace that the things that you can do are limitless, you can put your ding in the universe. You can change the world.

Whatever I do, I want to impact people's lives in a positive way.

Every day we're here is an opportunity to do what we can to make the world right, to help someone close or far from us, to not get so hung up on what we can't do, and remember what we can.

If we can be the best people we are as individuals, then that's the way to change the world.

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

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.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.