How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his or her conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life.

Norman Cousins

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.

Hubert Humphrey

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

When you place your priority on listening rather than speaking, you become an irresistible force for good in the world.

Lee Glickstein

In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.

Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy

We forget how intrinsically tied we are to the Earth—what happens to her happens to us. The more barriers we build to confine her wild places, the more ways we imprison ourselves. The more we poison and pollute her, the more vulnerable we become to illness and disease.

Cynthia Keyes

I shall pass this way but once. Therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now.

Paraphrase of William Penn

You are the light of the world… let your light shine.

Matthew 5:14 & 16

Learn to be a radiant human, and then shine on others.

Sark

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Above all, I was shown that love is supreme. I saw that truly without love we are nothing. We are here to help each other, to care for each other, to understand, forgive, and serve one another. We are here to have love for every person born on earth.

Betty Eadie

Of the best leader, when his or her work is done, the people will say, “We did this ourselves.”

Lao-tzu

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.

Richard Bach