Top 100 I Want To Change The World Quotes
#1. I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.
Big Sean
#2. Do I want to change the world? To a certain extent yeah. It needs to be changed ... it needs a kick up the ass.
Green Day
#3. As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
Bono
#4. I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.
Terry Deary
#5. I want to change the world with you at my side, holding your hand. I love you, Sarah, and whatever happens, I promise there won't be a day that I don't love you with all that I am.
Emma Chase
#6. I do think I might scare some guys, because I'm like, 'I want to change the world! I have dreams! What do you want to do?' But I only know how to be me.
Selena Gomez
#7. I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.
Russell Brand
#8. I want to change the world in my own way. So I do stuff that's artificial. I don't really like being the guest at someone else's party, because then I have to be entertaining. But I'll host parties because it puts you at the center of things without actually being a social person.
Susan Cain
#9. I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
Michael Phelps
#10. In the short term I want to change the world, In the long term I want to live forever.
Peter Thiel
#12. I want to change the world and I used to think I needed to do some big, significant thing. More recently I see this can be accomplished one relationship at a time.
Oliver Thomas
#13. My goal in this music business is to be here as long as I'm alive. I want my music to be here. I want to be the Michael Jackson and the Prince of hip-hop. I want to be a legend. I want to change the world. I want to give them songs that mean something.
Petey Pablo
#14. When I retire, I want to step away on a positive note. What you put out into the world comes back to you. You actually change the world with what you do. I want to put some good in the world.
Lupe Fiasco
#15. I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world.
James Cameron
#16. Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.
Joyce Giraud
#17. Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
Arthur Miller
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. When people ask me what it is that I want to achieve in life, I always tell them that I want to be able to make positive change in spite of all the issues that the world faces today.
Omar Al Busaidy
#21. The world is changing, and I believe that, if I want to stay employed as a programmer, I'm going to have to change with it.
Kent Beck
#22. Los Angeles is one of the four cultural capitals of the world, but we don't attract as many cultural tourists as New York, London or Paris. I want to change that.
Eli Broad
#23. Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way ... I mean it's not the world I want to change.
Carol Emshwiller
#24. I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.
Lady Gaga
#25. I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.
Gerard Way
#26. I don't have to change the world all by myself, I just need to partner in the work God wants us to do.
Katharine Hayhoe
#27. Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.
Sean Lennon
#28. I'm smart enough to realize that the world does not stop and change because I want it to.
Darren Lynn Bousman
#29. Passion. Confidence. Gratitude. The possibility of making positive change in the world. It's the sort of "spark" one gets the moment they decide to go after what they want, really fight for it, work hard, and not give up. I love that spark; it's beautifully contagious.
Beth Riesgraf
#30. I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
Mick Jagger
#31. So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.
Surya Das
#32. I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money" ... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.
Philippe Kahn
#33. I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.
Jody Williams
#34. I don't want to be happy. I just want to change the world.
Aaron Swartz
#35. I want to make people smile. I want to tell an epic story ... with laughter. I want to change the way people view the world. I want life to stop being so damn dramatic all the time. I want ... what are you doing?
Cassie Mae
#36. The toughest fucking moments in life are the ones where the whole world is a big, fat unkown, where chance has more power to change your fate than you do. It's then that you're gonna want me, Sali, because me, I'm a sure thing.
C.M. Stunich
#37. I want to be a billionaire, and then I want to change something in the world for real.
Kirstie Alley
#38. It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it's a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to travel the world and make some money and end up doing what I want to do. It was a way for me to go gather the experience to write an album and now sing about it.
Erica Packer
#39. Japan will change. Let's create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world, when I visit Silicon Valley I want to think about how we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan.
Shinzo Abe
#40. I wouldn't want to change myself for the whole world
Cher Lloyd
#41. Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.
A.S. King
#42. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
Antoni Tapies
#43. I want people to be entrepreneurs, but I want them to do it for the right reasons, because they think they can change the world, because they think they have got something of value to give to the world. Not because they think they can make a lot of money.
Pierre Omidyar
#44. I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.
ASAP Rocky
#45. I look around and I know there's a lot in the world that I want to see changed - and I want to be a part of something bigger than myself. I want to see things change, in myself as much as in the world around me.
Jon Foreman
#46. I'm determined to take ground and win big for the kingdom of God. I'm unapologetic about my mission to change the world for the glory of Jesus. I want to be a Joshua in my generation.
Steven Furtick
#47. There are people who desperately want to change the world.
I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already
in the state of continuously change since the beginning of time.
Or they may just want their names etched nicely on men history.
Toba Beta
#48. I want the definition of startup back. To be used by anybody who is willing to take the risk to quit their corporate job and go out and try and build an innovative, disruptive, tech-enabled business that tries to change the way things work in the world.
Mark Suster
#49. 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
#50. Change the world, I know I won't,
Enthralling as always I hope it remains,
A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.
But my only wish as I take this jaunt,
Is for my words on you to impress upon,
A smile, a tear or even an angry frown.
Anurag Anand
#51. I want to help change the world for the better. Why don't you?
Harry Whitewolf
#52. I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.
Condoleezza Rice
#53. I have learnt that nothing stays the same. Today might seem the same as yesterday but no day ever is; we may want no changes to ever come, but changes do, in time. They cannot be helped; it is how the world turns.
Susan Fletcher
#54. 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
#55. You cast a desperate look at Eric, who has not yet noticed that you've been bitten. Will I turn now? Am I becoming one of them? When Ghandi said, 'Be the change you want to see in the world,' I don't think this is how he meant it.
A.J. Lauer
#56. I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it - through this we can really change the world.
JR
#57. I don't want to bore people or myself - to be busy is something to be grateful for, but to be busy doing diverse work is absolutely ... I wouldn't change it for the world. I feel very lucky for that.
Darren Boyd
#58. I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.
Po Bronson
#59. But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!
Daniel Clowes
#60. I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
A.S. Byatt
#61. I like to be part of the change I want to see in the world. Not being afraid of criticism is actually a big advantage.
Ronda Rousey
#63. A lot of people want to do great things for God. A lot of people want to change the world. I just shake my head when I hear that. God is the only one who can change the world because He's the only one who can change hearts and minds.
Chris Fabry
#64. I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead) ...
Stephen King
#65. I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself with their weakness anymore.
Gary Shteyngart
#66. If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.
Andrei Voznesensky
#67. When you're speaking or writing to someone, pause and ask yourself, "Is this something I want to create?" If it isn't, change your words. Focus on the positive and talk about the world as you want it to be, not as it is.
Elizabeth Daniels
#68. I want to change things on my own terms, to show that there's no right or wrong way to change the world. There's no entry test. You don't need to suck anything up. Pay any dues. Just you and your anger and your voice is enough. If you only have the courage to use it.
Holly Bourne
#69. I see a man who wants the world to think he has everything but is actually very lonely. You have a wild side, but you don't want that life anymore. I think you're on a journey to discover who you are, just like me, only you're more afraid of change than I am." Mason
Ruth Cardello
#70. More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#71. There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.
Phil Libin
#72. I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.
Michael Arrington
#73. Each day is a surprise - and each day I learn something wonderful and new. Both in writing thrillers and in reporting the news, I work to change the world a little bit. I want readers - and viewers - to be surprised and captivated and even inspired.
Hank Phillippi Ryan
#74. If I make a change to a young kid to play any sport, not only tennis, instead of spending time in front of the TV or computer, that is good. I want to give them a good example: 'Hey, go out and play and see the world.'
Ana Ivanovic
#75. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.
Emma Thompson
#76. I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world ... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.
Mark Zuckerberg
#77. I never understood that everyone feels lost temporarily when they want to change their world and the state of their life
Priya Kumar
#78. Don't hate me for wanting to change the way things are. I believe in you, Callum. You can change the world, I know you can. But not like this, I'm not trying to be magnanimous or patronizing. I genuinely want to help but ...
Malorie Blackman
#79. It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.
Shari Arison
#80. I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ... make it a better place for this and future generations.
W. Clement Stone
#81. I'm an author. We don't want to lead. We don't need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people's heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don't. We never know. We just make stuff up.
Neil Gaiman
#83. I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.
Somaly Mam
#84. The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
Iain Sinclair
#85. It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.
Moby
#86. When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
Aaron Siskind
#87. I think for anything to change, in the real world, people have got to change on the inside and that's what we want to start, to get people to think and do more themselves and get involved in whatever they want to get involved with.
Graham Russell
#88. I am accomplishing so much on a personal level now, breaking down boundaries and growing in to the person I want to be. Right now I am the change I want to see it the world - that makes me happy!
Leilani Bishop
#89. I recommend trying this kind of grassroots organizing for a week or a year, a month or a lifetime - working for whatever change you want to see in the world. Then one day you will be talking to a stranger who has no idea you played any part in the victory she or he is celebrating.
Gloria Steinem
#90. I am sad and have a passion for unknown, distant places. I want to see the world. And I would love it, if I just had the chance to get away for a little while. But sadly, things aren't that easy; desire won't change a thing.
Abraham M. Alghanem
#91. I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.
Carla H. Krueger
#92. I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#93. [I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.
Danah Zohar
#94. I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.
Milan Kundera
#95. If you want to change the world," he said, "who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.
Ken Robinson
#96. I don't want you to change, Bridgette. I'm not in love with who you could be, or who you used to be, or who the world says you should be. I'm in love with you. Right now. Just like this.
Colleen Hoover
#97. I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
Wendy O. Williams
#98. That's really all I want, to be able to change the world with my voice.
Jackie Evancho
#99. Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly."
"I want to be a soldier. A hero."
"You'll grow out of it.
Steven Erikson
#100. I know there are days when we want to be liked by others a little more than we want to change the world. But, if we decided to speak up a little more and hesitate a little less, we will begin making ripples of change.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
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