To Change The World Quotes

#1. Kennedy saw the presidency as the vital center of government, and a president's primary goal as galvanizing commitments to constructive change. He aimed to move the country and the world toward a more peaceful future, not just through legislation but through inspiration.

Robert Dallek

#2. So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for a small time and that just about goes as far as it can go toward being a true thing.

Robert Bausch

#3. The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place.

Steve Jobs

#4. Irreverence ran on both sides of our family ... my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.

Richard Branson

#5. Cabot Searcy began to care about learning not for the sake of making good grades, but because he still wanted to change the world.

John Corey Whaley

#6. A change was coming over the world, the meaning and direction of which even still is hidden from us, a change from era to era. - Froude's History of England, ch. i.

William Hurrell Mallock

#7. You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're responsible for how you change it. It's very important to understand that whole thing about the ego.

Robert Thurman

#8. If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

Joseph Campbell

#9. There are some things about God that, were I to stop believing them, my world would change color, my hope would turn sour, and the meaning of my life would be yanked inside out.

Lewis B. Smedes

#10. Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

Sidney Sheldon

#11. Once individuals have the motivation to do something different, the whole world can begin to change. The

Esther Cameron

#12. Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

Will Wright

#13. 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

#14. Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#15. I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

#16. We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world ... We adjust to change.

Dan Rather

#17. Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

John Gummer

#18. The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.

Shahin Najafi

#19. Most people want everyone else in the world to change but themselves.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those worlds. Developing everyday theories, like scientific theories, has allowed human beings to change the world.

Alison Gopnik

#23. Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#24. The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.

Barack Obama

#25. One person cannot change the world. But you can become the world for someone. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If everyone can be such a world to one person, one will become ten people, and then a hundred. The world will be full of happy people then.

Enrique Iglesias

#26. There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

#27. Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.

Aloe Blacc

#28. What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come we haven't been able to change the puzzle instead?

Jodi Picoult

#29. I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

Samantha Power

#30. Young people have, truly, the potential to change the world. Not when they get older - today.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#31. Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.

Derek Blasberg

#32. Science enables humans to satisfy their needs. It does nothing to change them. They are no different today from what they have always been. There is progress in knowledge, but not in ethics. This s the verdict both of science and history, and the view of every one of the world's religions.

John Gray

#33. 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

#34. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,

William James

#35. I started off wanting to change the world, now I'm just hoping the world doesn't change me.

Ray Mileur

#36. By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love.

Russell Simmons

#37. Be you.
That, my friend,
is the change you want
to become in the world.

Frederick Espiritu

#38. It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Will Durant

#39. Three's all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#40. Some prefer the wildness. Some the calm. There's enough of both in the world for everyone to have their choice. And enough time for any to change their mind.

Nora Roberts

#41. A gastronomer who is not an environmentalis t is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalis t who is not a gastronomer is sad. It's possible to change the world even while preserving the concept of the right of pleasure.

Carlo Petrini

#42. Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world.

Sara Sheridan

#43. A single soldier is nothing to anyone, but a single reporter can change the world." John

Chris Strange

#44. 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

#45. The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.

Sharon Weil

#46. New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.

Zephyr Teachout

#47. In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Ernst Fischer

#48. I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Godfrey Reggio

#49. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

S. Truett Cathy

#50. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

Woodrow Wilson

#51. It can only benefit the city to have endless waves of exceptionally capable, even brilliant, folk unfettered by class and family connections. They change the world once a generation. That is certainly worth something.

Catherynne M Valente

#52. 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

#53. She didn't want to go out into a world where he didn't exist. So she watched the light shift and change, and let the world pass by without her.

Sarah J. Maas

#54. It was like adults had their own little world that we weren't allowed to be a part of, and it didn't make sense because we were part of the world, too.

Susan Pogorzelski

#55. Thrilled to be part of this new project Generation Nature and just encouraging kids to change the world.

Bindi Irwin

#56. With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it. A tiny set of genetic variations divides us from the Neanderthals, but that has made all the difference.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#57. "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

#58. She began to feel that she had not yet gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment, which the progress of time and variation of circumstances occasion in this world of changes.

Jane Austen

#59. 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

#60. Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.

Hugh MacLeod

#61. Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the negatives - and having the courage to change what must be changed for the sake of the entire world.

Laurence Overmire

#62. The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.

Henry Knox Sherrill

#63. If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.

Gabe Newell

#64. I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

Johnny Ramone

#65. Our whole life is wasted in trying to change others. For a change, try to change yourself! It is easier and at least under your control.

Sanchita Pandey

#66. In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them. Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. If you think you would need to change the world, think of your death and the size of your casket before starting to believe in your thoughts or else you are a loser.

Auliq Ice

#70. Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world.

James P. Krehbiel

#71. What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.

Sargent Shriver

#72. It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.

Robert Kennedy

#73. Commit yourself to do whatever it is you can contribute in order to create a healthy and sustainable future - the world needs you desperately. Find that in yourself and make a commitment - that is what will change the world.

John Denver

#74. Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

Gordon Brown

#75. The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

Ernest Bevin

#76. 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

#77. When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated, but I think it's not just an artist's responsibility as I think we all have responsibilities to different things, whatever we choose in our lives.

Gates McFadden

#78. That I should just dive in and let my world fall apart and rebuild itself. That if I can embrace change, I can embrace death, and that is the secret to liberation.

Suzanne Morrison

#79. 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

#80. Just don't leave anything unsaid to the people who matter. It only takes a few words to change your world.

James Hannah

#81. She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic.

Nikki Rowe

#82. Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

Dan Gilroy

#83.
Focus on someone else's problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice.
From now on you'll have to live in a world you didn't make up. Horrible thought.

Josh Lanyon

#84. In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

Nhat Hanh

#85. You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can't really fake it.

Peter Diamandis

#86. It is not easy to watch the world change around you. To see an entire way of life change and change and change again. It isn't easy to watch friends grown old and die, nor is it easy to be constantly moving on from place to place before people begin to wonder why you never age.

Michael Scott

#87. I wouldn't want to change myself for the whole world

Cher Lloyd

#88. We need 21st century programs. We have to change the dynamic because the world - we're not in the Industrial Revolution anymore, where you could leave high school, go work at the town factory for 50 years, and retire with a pension.

Marco Rubio

#89. I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.

Peter Thiel

#90. Our potential is so great that we have the ability to change our lives, our surroundings and the global world with just an idea

Bruce Budden

#91. Yoga should not be just an exercise, but a means to connect with the world and with nature. It should bring a change in our lifestyle and create awareness within us.

Narendra Modi

#92. We may not have done anything but when we are relaxed, when we are peaceful, when we are able to smile and not to be violent in the way we look at the system, at that moment there is a change already in the world.

Nhat Hanh

#93. This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

#94. You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

Philip Johnson

#95. For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.

James D. Watson

#96. This is where life as I knew it changed. This is where a new feeling slowly, eventually, permeated every cell of my body, changing the way I took in the world. My perceptions, opinions, everything changed the year I moved from Texas to Virginia.

Sharon E. Rainey

#97. When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city.

Christian De Portzamparc

#98. Choose Your Corner, Pick Away At It Carefully, Intensely, & To The Best Of Your Ability, & That Way, You Might change The World.

Charles Eames

#99. We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

Harold S. Kushner

#100. 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