1. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

— Nelson Mandela

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2. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

— Barack Obama

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3. “We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.”

— Nelson Mandela

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4. “Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.”

— Mother Teresa

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5. “Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.”

— Mother Teresa

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6. “Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.”

— Jane Goodall

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7. “I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.”

— John C. Maxwell

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8. “Together we can do great things.”

— Mother Teresa

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9. “Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.”

— Mother Teresa

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10. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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11. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

— Dr. Seuss

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12. “Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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13. “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”

— John F. Kennedy

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14. “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”

— Michael Jackson

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15. “What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.”

— Elie Wiesel

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16. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair.”

— Nelson Mandela

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17. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

— Desmond Tutu

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18. “Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need.”

— Michael Jackson

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19. “Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”

— Michelle Obama

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20. “Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

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21. “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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22. “There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.”

— Nelson Mandela

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23. “Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.”

— Jane Goodall

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24. “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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25. “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

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26. “Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.”

— Deborah Day

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27. “Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.”

— Jane Goodall

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28. “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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29. “It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.”

— Nelson Mandela

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30. “If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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31. “We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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32. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”

— Malala Yousafzai

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33. “The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.”

— Richard Branson

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34. “Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.”

— Telle Whitney

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35. “Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.”

— Simon Sinek

36. “If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve.”

— Jack Ma

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37. “If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.”

— Bruce Lee

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38. “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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39. “At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.”

— Brené Brown

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40. “Poverty is the worst form of violence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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41. “Doing good is good for business.”

— Richard Branson

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42. “Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.”

— Seth Godin

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43. “You need to feel that you’re making a difference.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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44. “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”

— William Wilberforce

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45. “Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.”

— Max Lucado

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46. “Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.”

— Jane Goodall

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47. “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

— Edmund Burke

48. “Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.”

— George Washington Carver

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49. “I guess one person can make a difference.”

— Stan Lee

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50. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”

— Oscar Wilde

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