Top 100 Can't Change The World Quotes
#1. I can't change the world but I can change the world in me.
Bono
#2. We can't change the world overnight, Reesa. But we begin by changing the way we choose to live in it.
Susan Carol McCarthy
#3. I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either.
A. Elizabeth Delany
#4. Anywhere in the world you go, you find racism, discrimination. Not just in the United States, or in Texas. It's very sad for me, but that's the way it is. I can't change the world by myself. I, being Hispanic, have also faced discrimination. But ... the world keeps turning.
Selena
#5. If you think we can't change the world, it just means you're not one of those who will.
Jacque Fresco
#6. I can't change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.
Charlotte Eriksson
#8. We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
Guy Spier
#9. You can't change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.
Madeleine Bunting
#10. Even if you Can't Change the World, you Can Change Individuals
Dan Howell
#11. I can't change the world, but I'm hoping that what I say and do will inspire everyone to try.
Tablo
#12. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
Antoni Tapies
#13. If you can't change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?
Pat Murphy
#14. We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.
Evan Meekins
#15. You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.
Beatrice Wood
#16. 148
When pushed hard enough to change himself, an individual typically answers: "I can't change the world", as if the change in the world was a prerequisite to justify his own changes.
Daniel Marques
#18. In charity, every little bit works. You can't change the world. You can't do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can.
Naomi Campbell
#19. We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?
J. Michael Straczynski
#22. The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.
Kendrick Lamar
#23. We really can't change the world. We really can't change other people! The best we can do is to start a few thinking here and there. The best way to do this, if we are sincere, is to change ourselves!
Ammon Hennacy
#24. [Life]It is what you make it. If you think you can't change the world, then go on and follow the path already carved out for you. But there are other roads to choose, they're just harder to trudge through. Changing the world is'nt easy, but I sure as hell am going to keep trying. Are you?
Simone Elkeles
#25. You can't change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
William H. McRaven
#26. You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.
Sebastian Thrun
#27. You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.
Kevin Johnson
#28. You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.
Patti Smith
#29. if I can't change the world," he told her, "I will change the way people look at it.
Gian Andrea
#30. Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
#31. You can't change the world if you don't know the principles of God
Sunday Adelaja
#32. We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment.
Pico Iyer
#33. I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
Henry Miller
#34. Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
Leslie Marmon Silko
#35. On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.
Bei Dao
#36. You can't change the world if your motive is revenge. Vibes like that just aren't productive.
Charlie Huston
#37. Maybe we can't change the world, but we can do our part to make the world a better place for everyone.
Boss Amanishakhete
#38. Life's all about the revolution, isn't it? The one inside, I mean. You can't change history. You can't change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.
Jennifer Donnelly
#39. One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#40. There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.
Jennifer Granholm
#41. Do you want to change lives? Do you really want to change the world? Then read. Read as much as you can, as widely as you can and don't forget to read what you like. Most of all read what you love. There is power in that.
Abigail George
#42. Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.
Boland T. Jones
#43. You can't change people. You know that. You can't make them stop hating each other, or longing to blow up the world, not by walking through the rain and singing to a small guitar. Most you can do for them is pull them out of the womb, thump them on the backside and let them get on with it.
John Mortimer
#44. I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had no good moral reasons: I just loved adventure, I loved the poetry of war, the poetry of chaos, and I found that there was a kind of grace in weaving between the bullets.
Luc Delahaye
#45. You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.
Kendrick Lamar
#46. There's all kind of things going on in the world that I don't like but I can't change. But at least I can say, 'Change the way you eat!'
David H. Murdock
#47. I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.
Ray Davies
#48. Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.
Jehane Noujaim
#49. Just because we didn't measure up to some standard of achievement doesn't mean that we don't possess gifts and talents that only we can bring to the world. Just because someone failed to see the value in what we can create or achieve doesn't change its worth or ours.
Brene Brown
#50. I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.
Charles De Lint
#51. I still love you," Aaron says softly, "I wish I can just turn it off, or that it would have faded away. I wish I could say I'm not the same man I was when you left me, that I've changed. But I am who I am, Caitlin. And all the magic in the world wouldn't change that.
Jackie Kessler
#52. One person can come along and change your life, and that being a misfit, as I was, doesn't mean you won't find friends and your place in the world.
Amy Hill Hearth
#53. And who knew?
That an unlettered man from the middle of the desert,
Would change the whole world from darkness into heaven
You may have every title, every big shot degree,
But you still can't explain: Alif-Laam-Meem
Boonaa Mohammed
#54. The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending.
Chris Bowen
#55. And there's nothing sadder, nothing harder in the world than watching the person you love fall apart right before your eyes - and you can't say or do anything to change it.
Jay McLean
#56. Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
Aaron Sorkin
#57. You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.
Alex Steffen
#58. We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves,
Banksy
#59. Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.
Leroy Hood
#60. Don't cling to your self-concept purely because your will demands it. Demand that your environment aligns as much as possible and change what you must about yourself when the outer world can't be changed. Mental health is about mental fluidity, mental illness stems in rigidity.
Oli Anderson
#61. It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I thought I could change it with magic, but I can't. People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.
Libba Bray
#62. I learned a long time ago we've control of little in this world, Amanda. It doesn't belong to us. It's out of our hands. Like being born or being sold into prostitution at eight. All we can change is the way we think and the way we live.
Francine Rivers
#63. Often times we feel like either we can't make a world of difference, or we feel that it's not going to change anything anyway. The truth is you can change someone's day, you can change someone's life, but you have to show up and do what you got to do to actually see any fruit coming from it.
Nick Vujicic
#64. "Be the change you want to see in the world" ... and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.
JR
#66. You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.
Chris Hardwick
#67. If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world
Seth Godin
#68. I don't know if it's so grand that I can change the entire world, but I know that I can help one person. So that's the goal.
Michael Franti
#69. Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law of nature. Give us a billion dollars.' And if it doesn't change the world, then they say, 'There's an even deeper thing. Give us another billion dollars.'
Gian-Carlo Rota
#70. Fifty dollars can't change a life, but when everyone gives a little, we can change the world.
Susan Mallery
#71. I can't start my day without hearing 'Waiting On the World to Change' by John Mayer. It's my alarm clock and my favorite song.
Matthew Underwood
#72. She knows there are traps everywhere that can make her cry, she knows the way she dies a little every time someone asks her for change and she doesn't give it to them means that she's too soft for this world or perhaps just for this city, she feels so small here.
Emily St. John Mandel
#73. I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.
Shimon Peres
#74. Maybe you and I can't do great things
We may not change the world in one day
But we still can change some things today ...
In our small way ...
Michael J. Jackson
#75. A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place to inhabit. So, don't be afraid to take a stand .
Ankita Singhal
#76. You can change the world. Please don't do that, OK? Some of us like the way things are going now.
Stephen Colbert
#77. You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can't really fake it.
Peter Diamandis
#78. I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that's what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can't keep up, you ain't gonna catch up. I've been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.
George Benson
#79. Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#80. There is no difference between the person who wishes he can change his bad character and did not and the person who never wished for it. Wishes alone don't change the world!
Israelmore Ayivor
#81. When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.
Brett Dennen
#82. If all of us carried a positive attitude, and we focused our efforts on striving for something positive in our own lives and in life all around us, everything would take a turn for the better. Yes, I really do believe that a positive mindset can change the world. Don't you?
Logan Seelye
#83. There's a good reason why change can be difficult: The world doesn't always want what you want.
Chip Heath
#84. He can't let me die. He won't I am the little lightning girl, and I am going to make the world change.
Victoria Aveyard
#85. You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it's so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.
Jacque Fresco
#86. All I'm saying, as a fan, is I'm tired of the same song for 30 years. Can't we change the message a little? You've arrived. You have a black president. Every white guy in a commercial doesn't have to be the idiot and every black guy in a rap song doesn't have to be God's gift to the world.
Bill Maher
#87. Because I don't think God trusts just anybody with so much heartache. The world has not yet seen what God can do with a man who gives both halves of a broken heart to him. And I don't doubt that a man like that can change the world ... or at least a little part of it.
Chris Fabry
#88. Make a plan to change the world. For
one night, don't disbelieve that you can.
Martha Beck
#89. If you can think it, then You Can Do It. Don't underestimate Your Power to change the world.
Jeanette Coron
#90. Don't despise those little things you can do well; they contain tiny miracles that can amaze you and you will change the world. Be a world changer in your own way! We look up to you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#91. But ... we will always be drawn together. We'll always crave each other. We'll always be in tune with each other, physically and mentally. There is nothing that can change or break that. And even if there was, I wouldn't want to. Not for the world.
Shelly Crane
#92. Having been born in 1939 and come to consciousness during World War II, I knew that established orders could vanish overnight. Change could also be as fast as lightning. It can't happen here could not be depended on: anything could happen anywhere, given the circumstances. By
Margaret Atwood
#93. I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
#94. We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.
Sue Monk Kidd
#96. I think sometimes it's too hard to believe in yourself. You just do the things you're not sure you can do. You just act, in spite of not being certain. I don't believe I can change the world - it sounds stupid to even talk about it - but I'm going to try.
Cassandra Clare
#97. I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.
Michael Franti
#98. Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#99. No outcome is certain, even when it seems so. Fates can change with the swing of a bat, or the flip of a switch, or the closing of a circuit.
It all came down to how far you dared to go to accomplish what the world thinks can't be done.
Neal Shusterman
#100. You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.
Jay-Z
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