Marco Rubio Quotes

I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference.

I believe that my part to play in this world is stand-up.

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.

It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.

I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.

We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.

When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?

You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.

My parents always told me if I believed something was wrong, I should try to fix it.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

I strive every day to do things that make a difference.

We're communicators, we're problem solvers, and we're lateral thinkers, and there's nothing that can't be improved with that. The world needs us, and we want to be needed.

You want to do something a little bit meaningful, because we're not saving the planet or anything, but we want to contribute in a positive way, in a way that makes a difference or makes somebody feel something.

I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.