Changing The World Quotes - Page 5

• Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world.

  Larry H. Miller

  Motivational, Change, Generosity

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• Both scientists and sages have told us what we already know to be true in our hearts: everything is connected. Therefore as we change, the world cannot help but change with us.

  Marie Forleo

  Heart, Sage, World

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• There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Thinking, Bakers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Life Changing, Hard Work

  "Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

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• The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

  Arianna Huffington

  Vision, World, Firsts

  Arianna Huffington (2006). “On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life”, p.123, Hachette UK

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• We have to challenge ourselves and be innovative so as to change the world. Get to this level of thinking. No small dreams, do big things!

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Dream, Thinking, Challenges

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• The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Real, Imagination

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking...no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, World, Want

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• Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!

  Tim Ferriss

  Believe, Impact, Focus

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• If you want to change the world, change it through the market

  Paul Gilding

  World, Want, Still Life With Woodpecker

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• In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

  Russell Kirk

  Inspirational, Change, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.274, Regnery Publishing

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• I'm an optimist.
  I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past.
  And I also believe I have a role in that.
  The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is that I can change.
  I can do better.
  If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 1, 2005.

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• Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.

  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

  Change, Peace, Responsibility

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• It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole world, that we will achieve a new and brighter future-the socialist brotherhood of the workers.

  Alexandra Kollontai

  Inspirational, Country, Future

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• This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

  Ellen Page

  Inspirational, Change, Effort

  Ellen Page's speech at the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive conference at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.

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• Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. 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

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.

  Ted Sizer

  Inspirational, Change, Impossible

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• Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Ideas, Challenges

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.19, Beacon Press

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• One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every human on Earth, it will have no less of an effect.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Healing, Stories, World

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.62, North Atlantic Books

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• I don’t think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.

  Shlomo Sand

  Book, Thinking, Different

  Shlomo Sand, Yael Lotan (2010). “The Invention of the Jewish People”, p.11, Verso

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• These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world. Who prevent the world from ending. Or at least they can change the inner world of a reader and that is a sacred power.

  Martine Leavitt

  People, World, Sacred

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• You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world. You always have been.

  Joss Whedon

  Different, World, This Life

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• So time over time what will change the world, no one knows? The only promise is a day to live, to give and share with one another.
 See the wisdom from mistakes in our past; the promise of a new day.


  Paula Abdul

  Mistake, Past, Giving

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