Pope Francis Quotes

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.

We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.

You're trying to just leave the world a little better.

It's your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.

I feel strongly that Mother Teresa’s life has a great message for young people. We so often feel powerless to do anything about the many problems in the world around us. We are so often left to wonder whether one person can possibly make a difference. Mother Teresa said yes, we can. Her life was resounding proof that it is possible

I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.

Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.

Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.

I like many Americans are frustrated by a lot of things in the world and I would like to be a part of the dialogue moving forward to make this a better world for everyone.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.

Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.

One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.

...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God, not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth, however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I. What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

Do well and right and let the world sink.