Top 200 Changing the World Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

152. “I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.”

— Lily Tomlin

153. “Your life will become better by making other lives better.”

— Will Smith

154. “We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.”

— Charlie Chaplin

155. “Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.”

— Barack Obama

156. “Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.”

— Nelson Mandela

157. “I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

158. “As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.”

— Marianne Williamson

159. “You can’t be neutral on a moving train.”

— Howard Zinn

160. “If something is important enough, you should try, even if the probable outcome is failure.”

— Elon Musk

161. “With our thoughts we make the world.”

— Buddha

162. “We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.”

— B. J. Palmer

163. “There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.”

— Isaac Asimov

164. “Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

165. “Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”

— Barack Obama

166. “Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.”

— Anna Lappé

167. “Don’t let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do, or cannot achieve. Do. Not. Allow. It.”

— Emma Watson

168. “If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.”

— Lilla Watson

169. “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

— Henry David Thoreau

170. “There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

— Robert F. Kennedy

171. “Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.”

— Barack Obama

172. “What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

— Albert Pike

173. “I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!”

— William Booth

174. “If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.”

— Deepak Chopra

175. “The greatest rewards come when you give of yourself. It’s about bettering the lives of others, being part of something bigger than yourself, and making a positive difference.”

— Nick Vujicic

176. “Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

177. “It’s not enough to be compassionate. You must act.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

178. “The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. ”

— Brian Tracy

179. “Don’t be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful.”

— Robert Noyce

180. “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.”

— Octavia Butler

181. “If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

182. “The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.”

— Barack Obama

183. “Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.”

— Frederick Douglass

184. “To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

185. “It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?”

— Zack de la Rocha

186. “Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that god has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!”

— Pope Francis

187. “Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.”

— Malala Yousafzai

188. “I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.”

— Jana Stanfield

189. “Let the world change you and you can change the world.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

190. “To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.”

— Dave Matthews

191. “What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.”

— David Attenborough

192. “We all do better, when we all do better.”

— Paul Wellstone

193. “Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

194. “As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.”

— Nelson Mandela

195. “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”

— June Jordan

196. “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

197. “The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

198. “We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

199. “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

200. “The world is not changed by people who sort of care.”

— Sally Hogshead