Here are some quotes about making a difference, the desire for which is why I’ve done Landmark Education’s programs.
Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.
–Ernest Hello
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
–Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
–Horace Mann
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
–Albert Pike
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
–Mohammed Ali
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
–Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
–Betty Reese