Top 100 Quotes About Changing The World
#1. I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just
Billy Corgan
#2. As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce ...
Jacqueline Novogratz
#3. I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.
Jason Calacanis
#4. By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world ... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?
Rick Danko
#5. When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.
Rick Danko
#6. Sometimes changing the world is as simple as changing the way you look at it.
R.M. ArceJaeger
#7. Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.
Mahathir Mohamad
#8. We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
Gloria Steinem
#9. Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid? How much did it cost to give Dr. Martin Luther King the books that catalyzed his mind and actions?
Tim Ferriss
#10. I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was doing graffiti - writing my name everywhere, using the city as a canvas. I was going in the tunnels of Paris, on the rooftops with my friends. Each trip was an excursion, was an adventure.
JR
#11. By "empathy," some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.
Paul Bloom
#12. I'm certainly not ready to go changing the world overnight right now. I'm completely uninformed about a lot of our issues, a lot of the nation's issues, not just Indigenous issues.
Cathy Freeman
#13. My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#14. ... books are a very recent means of expression in the broad sweep of history, capable of changing the world and toppling tyrants.
Nina George
#15. Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.
Shane Claiborne
#16. Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
Edward Norton
#17. Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
Viktor E. Frankl
#18. Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
Leroy Hood
#19. Even though He wants our help, values our help, and calls for our help in changing the world, our all-powerful God is not helpless - even without us.
Nik Ripken
#20. Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy
Beth Kanter
#21. There is nothing like understanding that your work has touched somebody. That is the sole purpose of acting. To be able to move and inspire. If I can do that for one person it is already changing the world and that makes me feel accomplished.
Scott Cohen
#22. Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.
Gary Zukav
#23. You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world. You always have been.
Joss Whedon
#24. It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.
Vinod Khosla
#25. As for changing the world, that begins with deciding you can.
Alex Lidell
#26. I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?
Steve Guttenberg
#27. The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.
Arianna Huffington
#28. You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?
Isaac Marion
#29. I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.
Taylor Hanson
#30. Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions.
JR
#31. I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I'm making politically observant films for audiences.
Neill Blomkamp
#32. Changing the world, one exclamation point at a time.
Jon Glaser
#33. I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#34. I don't want a gamer to feel like they have to commit their whole life to changing the world.
Jane McGonigal
#35. Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
Paulo Coelho
#36. Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the line, we realise that some of those changes such as the drugs probably weren't all that great or sensible. It was all about social experiments.
Steve Winwood
#37. We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.
Willis Harman
#39. The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.
Jean-Louis Gassee
#40. A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.
Dalai Lama
#41. A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.
Marianne Williamson
#42. Changing The World One Woman At The Time
Ana Sola
#43. If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
Larry Page
#45. I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.
Boots Riley
#46. Not everything needs changing. Some things need protecting. And that can be just as important, challenging and rewarding as changing the world.
Mary T. Barra
#47. We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.
Melody Beattie
#48. The decay of power is changing the world.
Moises Naim
#49. I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
Nathan Fillion
#50. What are any of our lives but the shapes we force them into. Memory doesn't come to us of its own; we go after it, pull it into sunlight and make of it what we need, what we're driven towards, what we imagine, changing the world again and again with each new quarry, each descent, each morning.
James Sallis
#51. I want to keep changing the world. It's possible. The black gay lead is ready. It's time.
Billy Porter
#52. David stood up and said: Sorry Lichtenstein, but I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.
Marianne Williamson
#53. Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.
Paulo Freire
#54. Disasters around the world are twice as big as they ever were, and ice is melting where it's not supposed to melt, and everything's changing - the world is changing - and it's all because of global warming, I think.
Jerry Weintraub
#55. Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#56. Humor is a passive form of terrorism, of resistance, and of pseudo-aggression that has less to do with changing the world than with mental hygiene. It is self-therapy...
Romain Gary
#57. Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.
Evgeny Morozov
#58. Now isn't the time to change yourself to fit into the world,"Clancey said his voice raw with whatever thoughts were storming beneath his skin. "You should be changing the world to accept you. To let you exist as you are, without being cut open and damaged.
Alexandra Bracken
#59. In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.
Eric Massa
#60. [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
#61. Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.
Adam Fletcher
#62. There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.
David Chipperfield
#63. Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.
Georges Bataille
#64. How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#65. Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.
David Wolpe
#66. History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.
John Eliot
#67. Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of changing the world.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#68. For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.
Alex Pareene
#69. Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'.
Marty Rubin
#70. Change the way you think, and you are halfway to changing the world.
Theodore Zeldin
#71. I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.
Kevin Systrom
#72. People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward.
Joe Green
#73. There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.
Sinead O'Connor
#74. In a few years the firm effort of Blazing Night combined with her tedious works on the net was changing the world. She had designed and established the biggest ever, the multi-trillion charitable company: Panhandlers Inc.
J.M.K. Walkow
#75. Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.
Rudolf Bultmann
#76. Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating lies, untold violence. Bold, brash stories about reclaiming our bodies and changing the world.
Eli Clare
#77. It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.
Whitney Johnson
#78. Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
G.K. Chesterton
#79. Social media is changing the world, and we're all here whitnessing it.
Ian Somerhalder
#80. We become great, not by changing the world, but by loving the world and changing ourselves.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
Camryn Manheim
#82. Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.
Douglas Coupland
#83. At heart we are all powerful, beautiful, and capable of changing the world with our bare hands.
Dianne Sylvan
#84. Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
Tony Hsieh
#85. Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. Changing the world may not be so daunting after all.
Mike Breen
#86. But you're so busy changing the world
Just one smile can change all of mine
Jack Johnson
#87. Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.
Orson Scott Card
#88. I'm encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
Muhammad Yunus
#89. Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.
Fisher Stevens
#90. You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.
Sufjan Stevens
#91. In the past, changing the self and changing the world were often regarded as separate endeavors and viewed in either-or terms. But in the story of the Great Turning, they are recognized as mutually reinforcing and essential to one another.
Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
#92. How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway ... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
Anne Frank
#93. Changing the world is difficult, changing yourself is far easier.
Amey Hegde
#94. You are changing the world with your thoughts, actions and creation.
Debasish Mridha
#95. Well in the scientific there is virtually no debate over certain things. For example, that we are changing the world. Humans are changing the world very radically, very dramatically. Climate change, which I assume is one of the points you're alluding to, is at the heart of this.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#96. The thing about changing the world ... Once you do it, the world's all different.
Joss Whedon
#97. 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
#98. I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
Don DeLillo
#99. Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to changing the world.
Maya Rodale
#100. What do I do?" Blue asked cannily. What have you guys seen me doing?"
"Traveling," Maura replied. "Changing the world."
"Trees in your eyes," Calla added, more gently than usual. "Stars in your heart.
Maggie Stiefvater
