10. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

9. Your thoughts, words and deeds are painting the world around you. Jewell Diamond Taylor

8. Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. Albert Schweitzer

7. We must become the change we want to see in the world. Ghandi

6. I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Helen Keller

5. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert F Kennedy

4. It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can. Sydney Smith

3. We can do no great things – only small things with great love. Mother Teresa

2. You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson

1. We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. Marian Wright Edelman

 

 

 

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