100 Make Your Mark Quotes

Following is our list of make your mark quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about make your mark in life.

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Famous Make Your Mark Quotes

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased. — Maya Angelou

Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time. - Jay-Z

Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time. — Jay-Z

Work for that feeling that you have accomplished something… Don’t waste your time on this earth without making a mark. — Joe Rogan

Today is yours to shape. Create a masterpiece! - Steve Maraboli

Today is yours to shape. Create a masterpiece! — Steve Maraboli

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground. — Jeff Raikes

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions. - Gary Vaynerchuk

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Be the one to stand out in the crowd. - Joel Osteen

Be the one to stand out in the crowd. — Joel Osteen

We all leave footprints as we journey through life--make sure yours are worth following. — Bob Teague

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. — Neil Gaiman

Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path — Osho

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. — Orson Welles

Either define the moment or the moment will define you. — Walt Whitman

Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go. — John Bartholomew Gough

Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music. — Mac Anderson

Short Make Your Mark Quotes

  • Make the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it. — Edward Bok
  • Success is when your signature becomes an autograph. — Abdul Kalam
  • It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd — Robin Crow
  • Be phenomenal or be forgotten! — Eric Thomas
  • Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies. — Kristen Schaal
  • Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another. — Kylian Mbappe
  • Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do — Brian Tracy
  • Make the world better. — Lucy Stone
  • What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy. — Leonard Sweet
  • People will stare. Make it worth their while. — Harry Winston

Make Your Mark Image Quotes

Make your mark quote Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.

Make Your Mark In Life Quotes

My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist. — Johnny Depp

We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy! — Ray Lewis

Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. — Steve Jobs

Make your mark quote How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now. — George Clooney

If my life had gone in a different direction - some of the choices you makes when you're in your teens and your early 20s, I fortunately feel that I haven't been marked by those things. — Gretchen Mol

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life. — Chris Abani

Make your mark quote Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.

Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are. — Howard Gardner

You're never too young or too old to make your own kind of mark in your own kind of time. You're never the wrong age to release the power within you to create the life you deserve. — Georgette Mosbacher

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world. — Nicholas Sparks

If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighborhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. — will.i.am

Leave Your Mark Quotes

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind. — Brandon Lee

There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out. — Joel Osteen

If I were you I'd promise to live life for all it's worth, take all you've been given and leave your mark upon this Earth. Trust your heart to show you everything you need...and if you were you, I'd fall in love with me. — Collin Raye

Make your mark quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. — J. K. Rowling

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation. — Joel Osteen

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. — Anthony Bourdain

Make your mark quote Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. — J. K. Rowling

When I want to end a relationship I just say, 'You know, I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks. — Rita Rudner

There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice. — Kate Wilhelm

Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide. — Stephenie Meyer

Leave A Mark Quotes

I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts. — Rigoberta Menchu

The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers. — Henry Clay

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal. — Ray Charles

Make your mark quote The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. — Robert A. Heinlein

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. — Todd Gitlin

Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others. — Dmitri Mendeleev

Make your mark quote It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.
It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.

To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived. — Laurene Powell Jobs

My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma, Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen. Question mark, you pregnant? Oh you're not? I love you, period. — Chino XL

The cat always leaves a mark on his friend. — Aesop

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger. — Aimee Bender

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More Make Your Mark Quotes

Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true. — Albert Einstein

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing. — Therese of Lisieux

You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure. — Angelo Sotira

Learn from your mistakes, make adjustments, and go out and compete again. That's the mark of championship spirit. — Randy Couture

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers. — Evan Esar

Is not this steadfastness to mark, to make, the character of your lives? Is it not God's will that we should press steadily on to our goal in obedience to Him, in channels of His choosing, whether in sunshine or shadow, in the cheer of spring or in the chill of winter, neither detained by pleasure nor deterred by pain? — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man. — Mark Twain

In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that. All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian. — Bill Ayers

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech. — Jeffrey McDaniel

Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it. — Ann Landers

Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you. — Julio Iglesias

When I die, the world is going to talk about me. They will never forget me and I will never have any regrets. If nothing else, the world will know I was here. I think that everyone should make their mark wherever they are. They will talk about you way after you're gone. Make your mark. Live your life. — Karrine Steffans

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world. — Ben Parr

I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous. — Helen Mirren

Yesterday is a memory and tomorrow is a dream. Today is the day to make your mark—to make a difference. — Shawn Phillips

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again. — Clyde Tombaugh

There is no solution or perfect model you can follow. The best thing I can say is you've got to get close to what you really value. When you strip away your role as a parent, as a mother, and as an executive, what really makes your heart sing? How can you make your mark? — Maureen Chiquet

You put some Vaseline under your eyes at night and under your chin, and you put a little bit on your chest and you'll avoid stretch marks and I'll get you some Vaseline, you can change your oil and fry chicken with it, too, but you best make sure you have something. — Tyler Perry

You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do. — Linus Torvalds

I love the sound of it," Trina whispers, as if speaking too loudly might interrupt the drumming patter of the rain outside. "It makes me want to sleep. Snuggle my head right up in your armpit and snore for three days." "My armpit?" Mark repeats. "Good thing we all showered up in the storm this morning. My pits smell like roses. Go ahead and get comfy. — James Dashner

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence. — Orison Swett Marden

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off. — Raymond Chandler

As I say, you get labelled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark. — Jamie Redknapp

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off. — Banksy

You look on the Internet, and people are transforming themselves on a daily basis, and it's not a superficial thing, it's not a vain thing, and it's not an "I don't like the way I look" thing. It's people truly being creative. It's a way of making your mark and making a statement, and I love that. Beauty is making a statement in whichever way you choose to do so, and I think that's a beautiful thing. — Ayesha Curry

One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth. — Thea Gilmore

I remember reading a book called, "From Niggas To Gods, Part One" by Andre Akil; the book was so easy to read, it was in capital letters with exclamation marks because Akil was screaming at us. It was about getting out of the mindset that this system has put you in. This mindset that makes you feel like your circumstances are permanent and wherever you're born is where you're going to end up. You have to realize who you are. — Charlamagne Tha God

I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that was supposed to pay my tuition, and I used it to make a film. For the longest time, I never actually graduated. And about 70 percent of the things I learned there I had to unlearn, but 30 percent was really valuable. It's like Mark Twain said, "Don't let school get in the way of your education." — Jim Jarmusch

You may want to prove that you're worthy of other kids or neighbors who were wealthier than you and teased you. You may want to prove that you're worthy of high expectations. But I do think that there is a youthful ambition that very much has to do with making your mark in the world. And I think that cuts across the experiences of a lot of people who end up achieving something significant in their field. — Barack Obama

A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be. — Deepak Chopra

What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing. — Columbus Short

When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger. — Sylvester Stallone

According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body. — Bill Vaughan

You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself…so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you. — Fritz Scholder

Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. — Steve Jobs

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