Changing The World Quotes

“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What was?
And
What if?

I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.

I really came into being
The day I no longer cared about
What the world thought of me,
Only on my thoughts for
Changing the world.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.”
― Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 1: The Long Way Home

“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 they would want to change with you. This is how humanity will evolve to become better. This is how you can change the world. The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“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, From Here to Eternity

“Poetry is a potent tool capable of guiding societies worldwide through its invisible aesthetic strength.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“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.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“One human can change the course of human history - all it takes is the right idea, at the right time, in the right place. And the right place is where you stand at present, the right time is right this very moment and the right idea is the one that defines your existence the best.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Saint of The Sapiens

“The ones who most shape the world are those who are not exposed, who can't be seen; unknown, opaque beings about whom almost no one knows anything. Like the hidden man in the story, except that instead of living a passive vegetable existence, they plot and weave webs in the shadows.”
― Javier Marías, Berta Isla

“He didn't believe in humanity. He didn't believe in himself. He tried and failed to change the world - and ended up being written off as a fictional character.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“Be the witness of the turning of the human universe, as you yourself become the cause of that very turn.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Saint of The Sapiens

“Accepting reality requires wisdom, impatience, cowardice, or laziness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Change your perspective and the world will change for you.”
― Shesh Nath Vernwal

“Can one young man change a civilization?”
― Rich Shapero, Arms from the Sea

“If we do not acknowledge our collective trauma, how can we ever heal from it? When we speak, when we share, we can change things. Maybe even change the world.”
― Seth King, All We Ever Wanted

“Think great, because great ideas run the world.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Changing a law is like digging a new field. You'll break ancient roots and blunt your spade with a lot of stones, but eventually plants will grow in your furrows, and your new hedge will thrive and it'll be as if it always was that way.”
― Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

“Perception creates possibility, and possibility creates reality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“But today, people are oddly cocooned in their misery. Many fail to realize either the collective reasons for our problems, or the collective changes necessary in order to solve them. Yet within the awareness of our oneness lie both our power to rise up and the ladder on which to climb. A belief in separation is always at the root of a problem, and a realization of our oneness is always at the root of its solution.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“We're invincible together. We have no doubt that the Slits are great and are going to change the world. We're on a mission and pity anyone who doesn’t get it.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“[On why he hates to see someone eating alone]

I want to change the world somehow. I don't know how because I'm not rich, I'm not famous, I'm not very smart either, so I can't be the President, but we can show the world that it's all right to be KIND and then maybe before long the world will be a much better place.”
― Jamario Howard

“We need to let the heart lead. Compassion is indispensable; it is the single most important factor we need if we are going to have any real success in protecting the environment, in creating a just society, or simply in living wholesome, happy lives.”
― Ogyen Trinley Dorje, The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out

“I have always said that change is good. It is inevitable. Embrace it. But sometimes, like trying to design a new oar for a row boat, it just isn't necessary.”
― James Hauenstein

“Change happens over time with consistent and persistent awareness met with discussion.”
― Jaclyn Johnston

“Every day I try to do something good in the world. Today, for example, I put on deodorant.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“A battle like this would be intolerable if we didn’t have a good time, if we didn’t have the joy of battle, if we didn’t have a high old time in this fight. Never, never underestimate the power of high hearts when they’re combined with principled, unyielding wills.”
― Jane Jacobs

“I see everything the same until it does not make any difference.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“My impact is forever, regardless of being attached to my nametag.”
― Lashon Byrd

“Although it sometimes proves difficult to change the way you think — to shift your own attitudes — it is immeasurably easier than to change the way others think.”
― George Hammond

“The kids see me idling on a computer for hours every day. The reality is I am changing the world.”
― Steven Magee

“When the revolutionaries say they want to ‘change’ the world, they mean they want to heal it, but the conservatives hear the word as ‘destroy’.”
― Sebastyne Alpha