Michael J. Fox Quotes

I know I want to help people and inspire people. That's my purpose in life.

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

If you devote yourself to more than yourself ... you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.

We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .

Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.

If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.

I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life.

I aspire to be useful.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

If they want to write about me in a good way, they should write how I do things that are useful.

I want to do good work in the world.

Life is short. Do whatever you can to help people - not for status, but because the 95-year-old you will be proud if you did help people and disappointed if you didn't.

If I change people's lives, that's all that matters to me.

If you make one person happy, there you go - you did your job.

I'm motivated to keep going to keep making a difference in people's lives.

There's just so much I want to do in life. Part of that is to use my story and use my experiences to give back to other people.

I was sitting around, moping and feeling badly for myself. I went to the hospital to visit a child, and it hit me: helping people is what I'm meant to do.