Changing The World Quotes - Page 6

• All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

  Julia Gillard

  Men, World, Chance

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• I can't change the world. I have to fix me.

  Bijou Phillips

  World, Can't Change, I Can

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• You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Groups, Needs, World

  "Some of the best commencement speeches ever". www.theglobeandmail.com. June 16, 2014.

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• This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Heart, Echoes, Giving

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• You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world - because you do.

  Caroline Myss

  Choices, World, Courageous

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• Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Done, World, Change Yourself

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• Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Groups, World, Underestimate

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• What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Different, Up To You, World

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• Freedom is the very essence of our economy and society. Without freedom the human mind is prevented from unleashing its creative force. But what is also clear is that this freedom does not stand alone. It is freedom in responsibility and freedom to exercise responsibility.

  Angela Merkel

  Responsibility, Exercise, Essence

  Angela Merkel's Speech before the US Congress, www.spiegel.de. November 4, 2009.

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• No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it's also clear that women are also our greatest hope for ending it. We at CARE have long believed that if you change the life of a girl or woman, you don't just change that individual, you change her family and then her community.

  Helene D. Gayle

  Girl, Long, Community

  "Helene Gayle, President and CEO of CARE USA, on Empowering Women and Girls Worldwide". Interview with Rahim Kanani, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 07, 2011.

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• More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.

  Nancy Birdsall

  Speaking Up, Momentum, Culture

  "Why I Want My Daughters — and Son — to Read Lean In" by Nancy Birdsall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2013.

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• As soon as you take responsibility for your life, you can change the world.

  Tom Basso

  Responsibility, World, Making Money

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• When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone' then you only impact the few and not the many.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Ideas, Impact, Focus

  "Quotes of the day: Cameron Sinclair", www.cnn.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  World, Want

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• Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.

  Hugh Jackman

  Ideas, People, World

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• If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.

  Christine Lagarde

  Brother, Tragedy, Degrees

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• Let us love one another as God loves each one of us. And where does this love begin? In our own home. How does it begin? By praying together.

  Mother Teresa

  Home, Love Is, Together

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• You have been created with the ability to change the world. Every single choice you make ... every single action you take ... matters. But remember, the converse is also true. Every choice you do not make ... every action you do not take ... matters just as much.

  Andy Andrews

  Choices, World, Matter

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• I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements in the health of the people of Africa and the health of women are key indicators of the performance of WHO. This is a health organization for the whole world... But we must focus our attention on the people in greatest need.

  Margaret Chan

  Organization, Impact, Keys

  Speech to the World Health Assembly, www.who.int. November 9, 2006.

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• Everything is art. Everything is politics.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, World

  "Weiwei-isms, By Ai Weiwei, trans. Larry Warsh". www.independent.co.uk. January 11, 2013.

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• [On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people's lives.

  Steve Case

  Life Changing, Impact, Swinging For The Fences

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• While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

  Zainab Salbi

  Hair, Together, May

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• Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Girl, World, Educate

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• The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

  Nelson Mandela

  World, Matter, Difficult

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• I do what I do because I have a compulsion to hold forth. I don't spend a lot of time, if any, thinking about the effect my work is going to have on the world. And I have an abiding mistrust of people who think that they're going to change the world. I think that people who think that they're going to change the world are the kind of people who put bombs on airplanes.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Airplane, Thinking, People

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