Seth Godin Quotes

You need to feel that you're making a difference.

If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.

The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

I feel it's important to make a mark somewhere.

Although it sounds cliche, the main thing I want to do is touch people with what I do. I want everything I do to be meaningful, and I want it to be about more than just myself, or the money.

If you want to be immortal, do something useful in your lifetime.

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.

You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.

Imagine that your life's efforts serve as a mark of God and that the only way the divine is seen, heard or expressed is through the legacy you leave behind. The yearning to make a difference is your need to express your purpose and derive meaning from your time on earth.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.

Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.

There are some concerns that are universal. Everyone wants to be loved, and everyone wants to feel like they belong somewhere in the world. Everyone wants to do something and feel like they have a sense of purpose. These are just the things that I think about and the things that make their way into my songwriting.

I am only here on this earth for a short period of time, like the rest of the country and citizens, and I want the time that I spend here on earth to matter.

To be part of something that's so important to other people, it's strange and it's unmooring, and it's deeply beautiful, and it's the gift that keeps on giving.

Everyone has to die someday. I'd rather die after doing something worthwhile.

All of us want to know that we are doing great things, that we are touching a lot of people, and that what we are doing is something bigger than ourselves.