“The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.”
Source: Clear and Present Danger
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Tom Clancy83
American author 1947–2013Related 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).
Peter Singer book The Most Good You Can Do
Preface (p. vii)
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (2015)
“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”
Wallace D. Wattles (1860–1911) American writer
Bill Nye (1955) American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer
[NewsBank, 03I, Science Guy Wants You to Ask, 'Why?', The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio, October 24, 2001, Connie A. Higgins]
“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
“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother”
Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist