Top 200 Changing the World Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”

— Karl Marx

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2. “We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.”

— Nelson Mandela

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3. “We believe people with passion can change the world for the better. That’s what we believe. And we believe that those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do.”

— Steve Jobs

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4. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

— Steve Jobs

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5. “Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it.”

— Augusto Boal

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6. “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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7. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

— Nelson Mandela

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8. “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”

— John Lennon

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9. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

— Margaret Mead

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10. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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11. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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12. “My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.”

— Elon Musk

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13. “Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.”

— Nelson Mandela

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14. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

— James Baldwin

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15. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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16. “Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.”

— Barack Obama

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17. “You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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18. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”

— Robin Williams

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19. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

— Barack Obama

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20. “Imagine all the people living life in peace...”

— John Lennon

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21. “If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.”

— Noam Chomsky

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22. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.”

— Karl Marx

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23. “Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

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24. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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25. “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

— Arundhati Roy

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26. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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27. “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”

— Noam Chomsky

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28. “Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

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29. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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30. “Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!”

— Karl Marx

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31. “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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32. “I want to put a ding in the universe.”

— Steve Jobs

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33. “We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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34. “We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”

— Howard Zinn

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35. “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”

— Angela Y. Davis

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36. “Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”

— Margaret Mead

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37. “Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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38. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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39. “Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world.”

— Jane Goodall

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40. “One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it can change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

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41. “Your life matters. You can’t live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what’s most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.”

— Jane Goodall

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42. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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43. “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”

— Bob Marley

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44. “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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45. “Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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46. “Helping others is the way we help ourselves.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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47. “If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it’s impact, you can probably create history.”

— Sharad Vivek Sagar

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48. “The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

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49. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

— Mother Teresa

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50. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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