Danny Boyle Quotes

We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.

I don't believe in an afterlife. You live on in the people you influence during your lifetime.

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.

Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.

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

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.

I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.

I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'

We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us.

I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.

If you've made enough money where you're not worried about the rent or survival, you start asking yourself why you're on this planet. Your point is to do the most good you can before you die - well, I could do more good if I didn't die.

Being seen is important for people. Doesn't happen enough for anyone. We're not here long in this world.

In the end, I'm really interested in people and what we do with our short time here on earth. I'm interested in the human soul.

I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

People are really nice in the world. The majority of every single person I meet is really nice. Some people get excited, and some people freak out when they accidentally run into me, but across the board most people are really nice, so I just like to treat people how they treat me.

Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.

It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.

The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

Kindness can change the lives of people.

Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?

Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why