Quotes about changing-the-world

Dan Pearce - Single Dad Laughing

If you want to change the world, first change yourself, then tell others how you did it. Never demand that people change. Inspire them to change using your own change as an example instead.

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone's heart.

C. JoyBell C. -

In order to change the world, you must first change yourself. In order to have the right to see what is wrong with the world, you must first earn that right through seeing what is wrong with yourself. We do not become influencers, leaders and teachers, through pulling on our better attributes and applying those better attributes to a broken world like a healing balm; rather, we become influencers, leaders and teachers in this world, by performing within ourselves the purging that we wish to see

C. JoyBell C. -

There are people who want to change the world, make it a better place... but what they don’t know, is that to make a difference in the life of one person and to make a single person’s life a better thing to live, is just as valuable as changing the whole world. And most of the time, that’s the only thing that we should be doing. You can gain the whole world but lose your own soul in the process, and in that case, the whole world just isn’t worth it.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Words are the most powerful forces in the Universe.

Laura Weakley - What The Torah Teaches Us About Life / Through The Themes Of The Weekly Torah Portions

Keep in mind too, our failures serve to teach us, and usually teach us more than our successes do. What we may perceive as a failure is also an opportunity for someone else to rise to the occasion and perform a mitzvah, or mitzvot. Do not begrudge someone their joyous performance of mitzvot. Sometimes, perhaps even more often then you may think, what we consider our failures were blessings in disguise for ourselves, or others, or everyone. Abraham did not change the world just because he himself

J.K. Rowling - Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Ana Claudia Antunes - The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

The less you move on the groundthe more the world moves around.

Sunday Adelaja - spending time or investing time?

Dreams of changing the world could only be realized by properly investing time into learning.

Ana Claudia Antunes - The Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe

Inequality and poverty, unhealth and no wealth are hand in hand. And if we are all born equal that should be true in all lands. We cannot divide the world between poor and rich countries. It's like saying the ones are good, the others are junkies. That can only increase more prejudice, miseries and sorrow. Turning the wheel today it will lead to a better tomorrow.

Connor Chalfant -

No one ever changed the world waking up at noon.

Joss Whedon - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

We spend so much time trying to change others – in part – because we do not deeply believe in and embrace ourselves as we already are. And so more often than not we do not learn to trust and utilize our gifts and power whole-heartedly enough to pursue and fulfill our own passions, purpose and possibilities.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological. So if you want to see real change, stay persistent in educating humanity on how similar we all are than different. Don't only strive to be the change you want to see in the world, but also help all those around you see the world through commonalities of the heart so that the

Steve Goodier -

Causes do matter. And the world is changed by people who care deeply about causes – about things that matter. We don’t have to be particularly smart or talented. We don’t need a lot of money or education. All we really need is to be passionate about something important something bigger than ourselves. And it’s that commitment to a worthwhile cause that changes the world.

Dianna Hardy - The Last Dragon

It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.

Vironika Tugaleva -

Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don’t hide your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.That is how you change the world.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

If you want a meaningful life for yourself don't ask "What can the world offer to me?" but "What can I offer to the world?

Vironika Tugaleva -

For so long, I was stuck in "either or" thinking. Either I had to change myself, or change the world. Either it was his fault or my fault. Either you had to stop acting that way or I had to stop reacting this way. Either there was something wrong with me or something wrong with them. I would fluctuate between both ends of this dynamic. I'd blame myself for some time and do everything I could to change. When that became tiresome, I'd blame the other, doing everything I could to make them change.

John P. Clark -

Create your own community of liberation. From this moment on, direct your most concerted efforts, your best work, and your greatest feats of imagination toward creating the impossible community, and do so first of all precisely where you are, with those around you.

Marty Rubin -

Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion

Germany Kent -

You don't have to be a billionaire to believe you can make a difference. Give your resources to a charity and volunteer in your community.

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

Whitney Johnson - Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work

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.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

When the minds of men slip from realities to fantasies without thinking of the future consequences, then we must ponder. When the hearts of men are entangled with what though might seem great but yet, specious ambitions without pondering over the resulting footprints, then we ought to take precautions. When the hands of men unwittingly and for the sake of self-gratification find the right weapons and dexterity for the wrong purpose, then massacre and cruelties leave indelible footprints of sorro

Shannon L. Alder -

You didn't choose God. He chose you. When you stop feeling hurt by everyone and plotting your comeback, he has some very important things he wants you to accomplish with your life.

James Jones - From Here to Eternity

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.

Joyce Rachelle -

When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.

Eileen Anglin -

Sometimes miracles happen in this world simply because good people take action and decide to do something, and never give up.

Vironika Tugaleva -

They say we live in hard times. They say the world is full of suffering and pain and ignorance and violence. But is that not better than helpless, grinned and beared mediocrity? Is this not the time of opportunity? When will we learn the importance of peace, if not in war? When will we learn the importance of loving ourselves except through self-hatred? How else will we come together except to realize how we hurt when we are apart? The world is not full of horror. It is full of opportunity. It i

Neal Shusterman - UnDivided

Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way. The pathway to enlightenment and transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.

Debasish Mridha -

You are changing the world with your thoughts, actions and creation.

Debasish Mridha -

You are changing the world with your thoughts, actions, and creation.

Vironika Tugaleva -

Peace and love are just as contagious as anger and fear. Your mindset affects the people around you and perpetually changes the world. The question is - what kind of world are you creating? What new society are you thinking into existence?

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

C. JoyBell C. -

If you want to change the way that the world appears to be; you must change the way that you see everything in it. And if you want to change the world; you must change the way everyone else sees everything in it. And when everyone else sees everything in the world in a new way, the world will be changed and then mankind will turn their faces to the heavens in search of a brand new vision and then it will be able to see the heavens for what the heavens really are! That being because, in order for

Guy Gavriel Kay - River of Stars

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.

Lisa Wingate - Firefly Island

How often ... do we pass by a need, a life that could be changed with the smallest bit of effort? And it's not that we don't care but that we're driving so fast, all we see are the fence posts flashing by on the side of the highway?Maybe the first step in changing the world is in slowing down and looking through the fences.

Initially NO - Coal fire cream

Fuck I hate fucksWho think they’re so fucking greatThey know everything about fucking,When they’re just fucking fucks fucking!And no one changes the fucking worldWhen they keep fucking to another fuck’s fuck.

Michael Smith - The Present

Unhappy: People look around and think, why are there so many people that are unhappy? We have progressed so far, yet people are still unhappy. Why isn’t this world the wonderful place it could be? Changing the world doesn’t change us.It does not matter how much we progress materially; it will not change anything. Only learning and seeing the truth will change us, and thus change everything.The truth transforms a mortal man into an immortal spiritual being.It does this because the truth just show

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