“Make the world better.”
Last recorded words; said to her daughter. (October 1893)
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American abolitionist and suffragist 1818–1893Related quotes
Amos Tversky (1937–1996) Israeli psychologist
Source: As remembered by Don Redelmeir, Michael Lewis, "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World". Penguin, 2016 (ISBN 9780141983035).
“I lack only $1 billion to make the world a better world.”
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917–2008) Inventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician
Quoted from Larry King Weekend, Interview With Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (2002-05-12) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/12/lklw.00.html
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Banksyhttp://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2018739.stm
Variant: Some people want to make the world a better place. I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!
Source: Wall and Piece (2005)
“I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Disputed, (1941-1944) (published 1953)
“If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Source: Song Man in the Mirror
Context: I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Investigations have failed to confirm this in Emerson's writings (John H. Lienhard. "A better moustrap" http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1163.htm, Engines of our Ingenuity). Also reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 25. Note that Emerson did say, as noted above, "I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods". <br class="br">Misattributed
“You might not believe it… but you make the world a better place when you smile.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Guardian
Variant: The world is a better place when you smile
Source: The Guardian
“The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.”
Tom Clancy book Clear and Present Danger
Source: Clear and Present Danger