Changing The World Quotes - Page 37

• Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

  Douglas Coupland

  World, Possibility

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• How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Kindness, Thinking

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• I change the world, the world changes me.

  Libba Bray

  World

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.

  Po Bronson

  World, Want, Used

  Po Bronson (2013). “What Should I Do With My Life?”, p.392, Random House

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• The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Children, Destiny, Insults You

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• If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

  Pat Murphy

  Chocolate, Cookies, World

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• And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Art, Creativity

  "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame: College Course". AFP, www.independent.co.uk. November 17, 2010.

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• I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.

  Donald Miller

  Giving Up, Moving, Kids

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• Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Teaching, Community

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• It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being...until ye change the world of man into the world of God.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Men, Baha, World

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• You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it.

  Laurence Yep

  Goes On, World, Changed

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• There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Beautiful, Boys, Loving You

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• Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Vision, Progress

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• What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world.

  Howard Zinn

  Writing, Play, People

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• Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Dream, Victory

  "Reaction to Obama elected 1st black US president", www.foxnews.com. November 5, 2008.

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• Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

  Bell Hooks

  World, Way, One Way

  Bell Hooks (2009). “Reel to Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies”, p.7, Routledge

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• I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead).

  Stephen King

  Home, Shopping, Generations

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Wind howled throught the night, carrying the scent that would change the world.

  Christopher Paolini

  Night, Wind, World

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• If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. 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.

  J. K. Rowling

  Powerful, Reality, Voice

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• I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, People, World

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, Unhappy, World

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.86, Penguin

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• Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a better world could and would be made. He had never held any illusions that he would change the world, of course, or even a substantial portion of it, but he always held strongly that fighting to better just his own little pocket of the world was a worthwhile cause.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Fighting, Discipline, Optimism

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• A little snark, properly directed, can change the world.

  Shannon Hale

  World, Littles

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• Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.

  Jodi Picoult

  Women, Struggle, Together

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Mean, World, Revolution

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