Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth.
In plain words
If you can make a difference and do not, you are wasting your time here.
Where these words come from
- 55% sureLots of sources credit Roberto Clemente with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Cited via Peter Leo, 'He just can't kick the baseball habit,' Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 11, 2006 — a named journalistic source, though not a contemporaneous primary interview/speech record. A 1971 Tris Speaker Award speech carries the same sentiment in different, longer wording.
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