Top 100 Quotes About Change The World
#1. When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.
River Phoenix
#2. I was afraid you'd turn into one of those literary types who say books can change the world when they're feeling good about themselves and it's only a book when anybody challenges them.
G. Willow Wilson
#3. How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#4. Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
Markus Zusak
#5. Why study or try to change the world on a Friday afternoon when you could be out enjoying the sun?
Nicholas Sparks
#6. 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
#7. They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better. Such alluring, such perilous ideals!
Margaret Atwood
#8. Isn't it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better?
Madonna Ciccone
#9. These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world. Who prevent the world from ending. Or at least they can change the inner world of a reader and that is a sacred power.
Martine Leavitt
#10. The power of love and caring can change the world.
James Autry
#11. You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.
Sebastian Thrun
#13. We just wanted to have fun. Mia wanted us to change the world.
Melina Marchetta
#14. Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.
Zainab Salbi
#16. If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.
Frida Giannini
#17. The world will not change by our position in the Universe. Actions change when beliefs change; collective actions and beliefs change the world.
Matthew A. Petti
#18. 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
#19. When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
Wendy Kopp
#20. With one kind gesture you can change a life. One person at a time you can change the world. One day at a time we can change everything.
Steve Maraboli
#21. Clothes aren't going to change the world, the women who wear them will
Anne Klein
#22. I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#23. Change the world, give a chance and stay on your principles..
Shahid Islam
#25. How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.
Peter Block
#26. As soon as you take responsibility for your life, you can change the world.
Tom Basso
#27. Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London.
Gordon Bethune
#28. I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.
Lloyd Kaufman
#29. Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#30. All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.
Tupac Shakur
#31. We want to change the world, but we aren't willing to change ourselves.
Christine Caine
#32. Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.
Ram Dass
#33. Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
William J. Clinton
#34. We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.
Bill Maris
#35. Unconditional love is quite foolish, but it is the only kind of love that can change the world.
Matt Tullos
#36. Vision with action and commitment can change the world, but without action it's just a dream, and without commitment it's a nightmare.
Farshad Asl
#37. Weapons and technology may help win wars, but it is only ideas that have the power to truly change the world.
Simon Adams
#38. Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
Tariq Ali
#39. A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.
Aphex Twin
#40. To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born,
Michel Odent
#41. The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.
Marc Benioff
#42. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you.
David Nicholls
#43. For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.
Julia Butterfly Hill
#44. If you want to change the world, just change yourself. The world needs traitors.
Bauvard
#45. Everything starts with one person ... I don't care if you're 5 or 105, God from all eternity chose you to be where you are, at this time in history, to change the world.
Mother Angelica
#46. To change the world, a country, an organization, a community, a relationship, begin with the smallest seed of change: begin with yourself. That is what this book is all about.
Gloria Burgess
#47. You fight a war to change the world, and it changes into a world with no place in it for you, the fighter. Those who fight for the bright future are not always, by nature, well fitted to live in it.
Terry Pratchett
#48. We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#49. I am not, as it turns out, incapable of changing myself or my life. I am not, as it turns out, worthless. I am, in fact, one seriously badass Witch who holds in her hands the power to change the world.
Dianne Sylvan
#50. It may take place in a foreign land or it may take place in your backyard, but I believe that we were each created to change the world for someone. To serve someone. To love someone the way Christ first loved us, to spread His light. This is the dream, and it is possible.
Katie J. Davis
#51. 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
#52. I believe that the thought that women together can change the world is emerging into the minds and hearts of many of us, and that the vessel for personal and planetary evolution is the circle with a spiritual center.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#53. Don't try to change the world. To find yourself in a new world, change your thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#54. The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it."
"But it'd be there.
James Jones
#55. If you want to change the world, make something beautiful.
Charlie Peacock
#56. The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.
Maxine Greene
#57. We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.
Nelson Mandela
#58. Change your thoughts; it will change the world. Change your imagination; it will create a new world.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.
Eduardo Galeano
#60. We need a critical theory that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals - in its market-driven, all, consuming consumerist idolatries.
Carl R. Trueman
#61. If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.
Pope Benedict XVI
#62. I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read.
Rodman Philbrick
#63. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
Barack Obama
#64. You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.
Tom Robbins
#65. Use your smile to change the world; don't let the world change your smile.
Anonymous
#67. if I can't change the world," he told her, "I will change the way people look at it.
Gian Andrea
#68. To change the world takes time; to change yourself takes courage.
R.S. Lowel
#69. He who would change the world should first change himself.
Socrates
#70. To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.
Mooji
#71. 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
#72. If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.
Dana Cowin
#73. 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
#74. The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.
John Barth
#75. All of us have to work toward a definite future ... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.
Peter Thiel
#76. We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.
Bryant McGill
#77. We need but three things to change the world: a brain, a heart, and a friend.
Anthony Marais
#78. Before we can change the world, we have to change ourselves. We can do it by focusing, concentrating, meditating, and self-realizing.
Debasish Mridha
#79. Someday, I'm going to discover all the secrets of the universe.'
That made me smile. 'What are you going to do with all those secrets, Dante?'
'I know what I'll do with them,' he said. 'Maybe change the world.
I believed him.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#80. If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.
Cameron Sinclair
#81. I view music as entertainment. When I'm on stage, I don't look at that as a platform for sharing ideology. Otherwise I'd be a zealot myself. That's why, when people ask me, 'Do you think you can change the world through your music?' I say, 'I doubt it.'
Greg Graffin
#82. I'm a big believer that you can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the thing that really drives the world is hedonism, the pleasure factor.
Danny Meyer
#83. You can't change the world if you don't know the principles of God
Sunday Adelaja
#84. It doesn't much matter whether people care or don't care. What matters is that people change the world.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#85. The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world.
Tony Dovale
#86. I don't think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.
Shlomo Sand
#87. We canna grieve for those who've gone. Not before we've fought to change the world that took them.
Samantha Shannon
#88. We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it ... but Washington really changes the world.
Martin Sheen
#89. To change the world, the best thing that you can do is to accept changes with love.
Debasish Mridha
#90. You can change the world by just becoming kind to the world.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Changing my own actions may not change the world, but it's a start.
Jacqueline Pearce
#92. If you have decided to change the world, don't read the books about the dimensions of the world! Be like a meteorite; strike the world with your ideas with utter courage and with infinite fearlessness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#93. So you, me, Fergus, Lorcan, and Lennex are going to change the world, are we?
Not the world. Just the country. And to change the country you only have to change a few minds.
Cecelia Ahern
#94. I can change the world with my own two hands
Jack Johnson
#95. How to "change the world" in two words: S.T.A.R.T. N.O.W.
1. START - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.
2. NOW - No Opportunity Wasted
Richie Norton
#96. Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
#97. Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
#99. Pursue your dreams. You have one life to awe the world.
Use your powerful words to change the world.
Anna Glazebrook
#100. Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.
Tammara Webber
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