„Leave this world a little better than you found it.“

„FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT….“

—  Terry Pratchett, livro The Shepherd's Crown

Fonte: The Shepherd's Crown

„When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.“

—  Jim Henson American puppeteer 1936 - 1990

„My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.“

—  Jim Henson American puppeteer 1936 - 1990

„We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation. We have an obligation to clean up after ourselves, and not leave our children with a world we've shortsightedly messed up, shortchanged, and crippled.“

—  Neil Gaiman English fantasy writer 1960

Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)

„Whatever world it is, whatever you’ve done there for better or worse, you always leave the same way.
Alone.“

—  Richard K. Morgan, livro Altered Carbon

Epilogue (p. 523)
Altered Carbon (2002)

„Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.“

—  Neil Gaiman English fantasy writer 1960

Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
Contexto: Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

„Where, where, are you tonight?
Why did you leave me here all alone?
I searched the world over,
And thought I found true love.
You met another and
Pfft! you were gone.“

—  Buck Owens American country singer-songwriter 1929 - 2006

" Pfft You Were Gone" - comedic country song often featured on Hee Haw

„If I have to choose between an omnipotent God who leaves the world in this condition, and a God who has only a little bit of power but really cares and tries to make things better, I'll take you every time. Go on playing God, Hyrum. You're not bad at it. Sometimes you kind of get it right.“

—  Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game hexalogy

Julian Delphiki, aka Bean.
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)

„Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.“

—  Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

„It is too little to call man a little world, except God, man is a diminutive to nothing. Man consists of more pieces, more parts, than the world; than the world doth, nay, than the world is.“

—  John Donne English poet 1572 - 1631

IV. Mediscque Vocatur The physician is sent for
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

„Are you better than Jesus? You must be better than him. Yes, you must be confident that you can do better things and you can be better than Jesus, because Jesus died and could save the world only on the spiritual level. But you are going to save the world both on the spiritual level and physical level. You must be confident that you are better than Jesus. The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world. I will go beyond the boundary of the U. S., opening up the toll gate, reaching out to the end of the world. I will go forward, piercing through everything. Are you with that attitude? With that zeal and courage? Are you not scared? You must be with strength here. Unless you are like that, you cannot go over or win in the judgment of personality.“

—  Sun Myung Moon Korean religious leader 1920 - 2012

Master Speaks: The Significance of the Training Session (1973-05-17 http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon73/SM730517.htm)

„It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.“

—  John Green, livro Paper Towns

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 229
Paper Towns (2008)

„I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.“

—  Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900

„You come into this world a zero, and you leave a zero.“

—  Shawn Crahan American musician 1969

Jason Arnopp, Slipknot: Inside the Sickness, Behind the Masks (2001), ISBN 0091879337

„Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.“

—  Nonie Darwish American activist 1949

Address at the Feat of Tabernacles convention, Jerusalem (2007)

„A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.“

—  Edward Bulwer-Lytton English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician 1803 - 1873

The Disowned (1828), Chapter xxxiii.

„For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal.“

—  Garry Kasparov former chess world champion 1963

The "Magician of Riga" rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.
Part I, Chapter 5, Talent, p. 60-61
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)

„She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.'
'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?“

—  Meg Rosoff American-British children's writer 1956

Fonte: The Bride's Farewell

„Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.“

—  Anton Chekhov Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860 - 1904

Ничто так не усыпляет и не опьяняет, как деньги; когда их много, то мир кажется лучше, чем он есть.