Changing The World Quotes - Page 25

• 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

  Inspirational, Positive, People

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• As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

  Lea DeLaria

  Girl, Trying, World

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Sacrifice, Needs, World

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• News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  News, Literature, World

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• You really can change the world if you care enough.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Change, Black History

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• 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

  Thinking, Hands, Trying

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• When you're finished changing, you're finished.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Change, Leadership, Inspiration

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  The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

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• An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Practice, Interesting

  Speech by H.E. Vicki Treadell, British High Commissioner to Malaysia, at 16th Gandhi Memorial Lecture, www.gov.uk. October 13, 2016.

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• I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Men, Immature

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• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact.

  Ashley Greene

  Girl, Mom, Growing Up

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• I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it - through this we can really change the world.

  JR

  Art, Helping Others, People

  "Street artist's wish to change the world". "TEDTalk Tuesdays", www.cnn.com. June 19, 2011.

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• We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

  Naveen Jain

  Technology, Long, Innovation

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• Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.

  Naveen Jain

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Engineering

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• I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Needs, World, Injustice

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• I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

  Penn Jillette

  Records, World, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur, World

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from May 06, 2014

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• I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Beautiful, Offering, Trying

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• No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

  Milan Kundera

  Rust, Movement, World

  Milan Kundera (1983). “The Joke”, Viking Press

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• My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

  Jack Layton

  Love, Inspirational, Hope

  Jack Layton's Letter to Canadians, www.theglobeandmail.com. August 20, 2011.

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• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Change, Wisdom

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• You gotta be able to change worlds.

  Courtney Love

  World, Able

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• You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

  Jessica Mitford

  Change, Heartless, World

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