World Change Quotes

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world. ~ Susan Rice

If we spark a student's passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world. ~ Tim Fargo

Don't wait for the world to change. Change your mind about the world. ~ Alan Cohen

The great mission of our day is not conquering the sea or space, disease or tyranny. The grand quest which calls to the hero in every one of us is to become fully alive--to stand up and claim our birthright, which is inner freedom, love and radiant purpose. By fulfilling this, we transform the world. ~ Jacob Nordby

Static people love to compensate for their inability to change themselves by always trying to change the world. ~ Criss Jami

Broken people have an irresistible urge to try to 'fix' the world. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you make choices, please remember: what is good for you but not good for others won't be good for you either, eventually; what's good for you and others but not good for the Earth won't be good for you or others either, eventually; what's good for you, others, and the Earth will be good for all. ~ Ilchi Lee

If you can think it, then You Can Do It. Don't underestimate Your Power to change the world. ~ Jeanette Coron

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced. ~ Christopher Dawson

If we don't see real changes in the world, it simply means we are not serious enough about creating those changes. We cannot a!ord to entertain superficial changes any more. The changes we need should be deep, real, and thorough. ~ Ilchi Lee

It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world. ~ Simon Mainwaring

I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world. ~ Charles Duhigg

A great story can change the world. ~ Stewart Stafford

As a genealogist, I have seen the Big Picture as very few have. Most people now living have no clue who they are or where they come from. We are all descended from the ancient kings of our various cultures. There is nothing unique about it. And let's be honest, most of those kings were pretty ruthless individuals. What's important for us today is that we wake up to the fact that we are all literally cousins. How would our world change if we honored that relationship and started treating one another as family? ~ Laurence Overmire

Isn't that how the world is going to change? By each of us putting ourselves out there, facing despair, and taking care of one another? ~ Corey Wheeland

The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do ... There isn't a single thing that doesn't require a complete remake. There are two ways of looking at that. One is: Oh my gosh, what a big burden. The other way, which I prefer, is: What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world. ~ Paul Hawken

To become aware of what is constant in the flux of nature and life is the first step in abstract thinking. The recognition of regularity in the courses of the heavenly bodies and in the succession of seasons first provides a basis for a systematic ordering of events, and this knowledge makes possible a calendar ... Simultaneously with this concept, a system of relationships comes into the idea of the world. Change is not something absolute, chaotic, and kaleidoscopic; its manifestation is a relative one, something connected with fixed points and a given order. ~ Hellmut Wilhelm

We preach grace, but we don't always practice it. We talk about God's mercy, but we don't always want the people who need it most to know it or get in on it. We say we are in the redemption business, but the door to that redemption is often locked by us from the inside. We say, "Come in! All are welcome!" but "all" is often marked with an asterisk. How, I ask, can the world change – how can heaven come to earth – if we stingily protest against God for his grace to others, grace we have freely received ourselves? How can we pray "thy kingdom come," and be resentful toward God and those he allows to enter the kingdom in his way and his timing? ~ Ronnie McBrayer

Our world desperately needs change. We all know this. The scope of the change ranges from our lifestyles to the direction of our civilization. When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and the caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin. ~ Ilchi Lee

And then I couldn't see (Banawa) any more because the plane tilted up and we flew straight into a fierce light.

This must be what it's like to be reborn.

First, there you are in the darkness of your mother's womb, not knowing anything and not wanting anything to change.

And then suddenly you are out, naked and starving hungry in a shining new world. ~ Candy Gourlay

If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world? ~ Ismail Kadare

I might not have the capability to change the world but I shall have the ability to change my world ~ P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world. ~ Conrad Black

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man. ~ Vaclav Havel

Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty or a hundred, and more often than not, the best of plans are laid to waste by the many. ~ Patrick Carman

It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world? ~ Neal Shusterman

It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world. ~ Teri Hatcher

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world. ~ Elizabeth Janeway

Why change the world? Change worlds! ~ Henry Miller

Liberate yourself from unconstructive beliefs forced upon you by others for imprisonment sake. Allow into this space a new-fangled reality which warrant viewpoints increasing a new understanding. ~ Michaelson Williams

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

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world. ~ Michael Mandelbaum

Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

I didn't change the world. ~ Marat Safin

Let the world change you and you can change the world ~ Ernesto Che Guevara

There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world. ~ Hasso Plattner

All of us have to work toward a definite future ... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world. ~ Peter Thiel

Thrilled to be part of this new project Generation Nature and just encouraging kids to change the world. ~ Bindi Irwin

The one who shall wish to change me shall be changed ~ 'SON Of GOD' P.S.Jagadeesh Kumar

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world? ~ Kevin Eubanks

Change anything about your life that cannot be accepted. Accept everything about your life that cannot be changed and move on with your big dreams! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world. ~ Steven Curtis Chapman

one word could change the whole world ~ Sarah Dessen

If you learn something that changes you, you've made progress. If you learn something that changes others, you've helped change the world. ~ Lanie Lane

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

I'm just tired of feeling like the way things are is the only way they can ever be. ~ Mary Weber

To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world. ~ J M G Le Clezio

This world is a magical place without us. All the drama, wars, hatred and the like, originate from, and brew in our minds. If we can individually heal our minds, we can finally see the magic in our world. ~ Jacent Mary Mpalyenkana

Music can't change the world. ~ Bob Geldof

How do we change the world? Change the story. ~ Charles Eisenstein

You are going to take the high sea of the world; change not, on that account, patron or sails, anchor or wind. Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.
May the favorable wind of celestial inspirations ever fill your vessel's sails fuller and fuller and make you happily arrive at the port of a holy eternity. ~ Francis De Sales

Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world. ~ Jack Ma

People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world. ~ Joe Strummer

An actual saga demands change, both in its characters and its world. ~ Katharine Kerr

Silence in the face of injustice, is injustice in action. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Perhaps they should feel this safe sand blow away so that their heads are uncovered for a time, so that they will have to taste not only the solid honesty of my red borscht, but the new flavor of the changing world. ~ Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

This book argues that evolution is happening all around us. It is the best way of understanding how the human world changes, as well as the natural world. Change in human institutions, artefacts and habits is incremental, inexorable and inevitable. It follows a narrative, going from one stage to the next; it creeps rather than jumps; it has its own spontaneous momentum, ~ Matt Ridley

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world. ~ Alain Aspect

In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer talented people. It is likely to change the culture of an industry that for nearly a century has been the money center of the world. ~ Andrew Ross Sorkin

Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile! ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When it comes to dealing with the world's climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world. ~ Thomas Friedman

My generation failed to change the world, but at least I did not let the world change me. ~ Chronis Missios

The fundamental language of life is change. Life will keep on changing. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world. ~ Juan Cole

I am writing something very simple that will change you and change the world. ~ Debasish Mridha

I am extremely ecstatic about the presidency of Barack Obama. I think he is paving the way for young African-American men like myself. I have very high expectations for Obama, and I am extremely hopeful that he will bring great lasting change not just to America, but to the entire world. ~ Texas Battle

Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world. ~ Michele Bachmann

Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results. ~ Ryan Lilly

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world. ~ Bill Lee

I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor. "I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this." He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. "We have a right to our lives!"
The kids go wild.
"We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies!"
The cheers reach fever pitch.
"We deserve a world where both those things are possible - and it's our job to help make that world. ~ Neal Shusterman

All I want to do is change the world. ~ W. Clement Stone

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

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world. ~ Jehane Noujaim

That's where we start making changes From the deepest and softest.
It's not the world that we needed to change It is the people who inhabit the world. It's not machines that we need to change. It is the people who use those machines. Even with people we can start the change from the softer things such as the way we breathe, and the way we feel about or toward other people and other living beings. These soft parts shape Our behaviors and our choices, both on a personal and a global scale. In this respect, they are fundamental, more so than any material changes. ~ Ilchi Lee

In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world. ~ Shalom Harlow

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world. ~ Steve Ballmer

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world. ~ Jacque Fresco

Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world. ~ Gary Zukav

You have a choice, you either give it your best, or alternative you give up. Don't look back upon your life with regret, make the changes you want and make them now!". ~ Darren Housley

Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world. ~ Kemi Sogunle

The call to love our enemies is, without a doubt, the most difficult thing Jesus invited us to do. . . For gang members, the decision to not retaliate can be a life and death decision. It is a ridiculous call, and yet, as the cycle of violence is broken and Love spreads, the ripples of Love change the world. ~ Jamie West Zumwalt

If we change our thoughts from 'it's too late' to, 'there's still hope', we might see some change in the world. ~ Kellie Elmore

Today is a new day-let's go out there and change the world. ~ Charmaine J Forde

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

Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we experience right now. The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty. The future is nothing grander than the very next moment, and it arrives solely from the present. ~ Bo Lozoff

Imagine a world where people were 10% happier and less reactive. Marriage, parenting, road rage, politics - all would be improved upon. Public health revolutions can happen rapidly. Most Americans didn't brush their teeth until after world war 2 after soldiers were demanded to maintain oral hygiene. Exercise didn't get popular until science proved its benefits. Mindfulness, I had come to believe, could, in fact, change the world. ~ Dan Harris

An incense floated in the quivering air, A mystic happiness trembled in the breast As if the invisible Beloved had come Assuming the sudden loveliness of a face And close glad hands could seize his fugitive feet And the world change with the beauty of a smile. ~ Sri Aurobindo

To change the world, change yourself first. ~ Debasish Mridha

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

He can't let me die. He won't I am the little lightning girl, and I am going to make the world change. ~ Victoria Aveyard

Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics ... ~ Rob Brezsny

Sometimes a simple focused thought can change the whole world. ~ Debasish Mridha

Change is good only when you know yourself. ~ Mwanandeke Kindembo

It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world. ~ Dan Pallotta

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change. ~ Martin Buber

Moda Operandi will change the face of luxury e-commerce by directly connecting brands with the most discerning shoppers around the world. ~ Aslaug Magnusdottir

The world is changing because we're changing it. And that makes me understand, at least, what kind of person I'd like to be. A person can seek ways, whether big or small, to heal the world. That, to me, is spirituality and one's 'soul.' Not some disembodied eternal wishfulness but a way of being that, most days, I can work on. Life is like walking with a flashlight on a dark night. You can't see your destination, but each step illuminates the next few steps, and, taking one after another, you can get where you need to go. Only now, we'll need to quicken our pace if we are to avoid major upheaval in this century. It's up to us not just as individuals but as citizens of nations and of the world. ~ Carl Safina

Learn, Teach, Love, Experience and Grow. That's what I know about this life we live. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

The world we see today is the world we'll see tomorrow if we fail to do something now to change the things we don't like about it. ~ Mayor Deah