Jim Henson Quotes

I want to put a ding in the universe.

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.

We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

I don't think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

I want to continually find ways to bring my ideas off the stage and into the real world, into the streets. I think I can make the world a better place, if only for a little while.

I've always wanted to make an impact.

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?

To me, a life that doesn't change things and touch people's lives is pretty meaningless.

I feel it's important to make a mark somewhere.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth. It's not going to be, 'It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl,' but really and truly what you're going to leave on this Earth is the influence on others.

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

I believe in having an impact in doing things.

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.

You can have an impact anywhere you are.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.