35 Change The World Quotes Inspiring Urgent Action

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars, to change the world.
- Harriet Tubman

We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.
- Nelson Mandela

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank

You can make things happen. You're in control of change.
- Dyllan McGee

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
- John F. Kennedy

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale

You may find that making a difference for others makes the biggest difference in you.
- Brian Williams

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
- Malala Yousafzai

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.
- Shonda Rhimes

One person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world.
- Bono

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
- Mother Teresa

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
- Angela Y. Davis

Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change.
- Jim Rohn

Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

By changing nothing, nothing changes.
- Tony Robbins

You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.
- Steve Case

There is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it.
- Amanda Gorman

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people’s lives.
- Tim Tebow

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are indeed part of the problem.
- Coretta Scott King

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.
- Abraham Maslow

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
- Dorothy Day

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say it’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem, then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
- Fred Rogers

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
- Steve Jobs

Do it! What are you waiting on? Do it! Stand up for what you believe in. The world needs your voice. Whoever you are, you have something to say. Say it.
- Kerry Washington

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
- Walt Disney

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
- Oprah Winfrey

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
- Leo Tolstoy

If you do not change direction, you might end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.
- Mandy Hale

Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
- Stephen Chbosky