You can contribute to change the world by starting with small things like helping others in need and doing what is right. And by carrying the same mindset and working together, we can change the world and make it a better place. May these quotes about changing the world help you realize that you have a role to play for that change to happen.
1. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
2. “If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.” – Chinese Proverb
3. “The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
4. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
5. “I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.” – Maya Angelou
6. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall
7. “No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.” – George Washington
8. “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
9. “It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.” – Tom Brokaw
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10. “The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.” – Colin Wilson
11. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
12. “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde
13. “A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.” – Albert Schweitzer
14. “There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.” – Sister Mary Rose McGeady
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15. “Every day we're given small opportunities to bring someone joy that can make a huge difference in a life.” – Delilah
16. “Don't spend your precious time asking, Why isn't the world a better place? It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is, How can I make it better? To that, there is an answer.” – Leo F. Buscaglia
17. “If you can't feed one thousand people, then feed one.” – Mother Teresa
18. “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” – Denis Waitley
19. “During my long life, I have learned one lesson: that the most important thing is to realize why one is alive and I think it is not only to build bridges or tall buildings or make money, but to do something truly important, to do something for humanity. To bring joy, hope, to make life richer for the spirit because you have been alive, that is the most important thing.” – Artur Rubinstein
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20. “Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.” – Marian Wright Edelman
21. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller
22. “However much I am at the mercy of the world, I never let myself get lost by brooding over its misery. I hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of that misery to an end.” – Albert Schweitzer
23. “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
24. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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25. “Will you be the rock that redirects the course of the river?” – Claire Nuer
26. “I spend my life building the world I want to live in.” – Robin Chase
27. “To love what you do, and feel that it matters. How could anything else be more fun?” – Katharine Graham
28. “Candles melt away as they are used. We often feel we are the same, burning up, burning out, burning down. What we must remember, though, is how we light the room of this world in the time allotted to us.” – Anonymous
29. “I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” – Helen Keller
30. “If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” – Betty Reese
More Change the World Quotes
31. “The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
32. “No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” – Edmund Burke
33. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
34. “Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.” – William Arthur Ward
35. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” – Muhammad Ali
36. “Light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
37. “You can make things happen. You’re in control of change.” – Dyllan McGee
38. “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.” – Woodrow Wilson
39. “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
40. “When someone tells you that you can't do something, perhaps you should consider that they are only telling you what they can't do.” – Sheldon Cahoon
41. “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” – J.K. Rowling
42. “The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.” – Allard Lowenstein
43. “If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.” – William H. McRaven
44. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa
45. “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” – Nelson Mandela
46. “Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier.” – Mother Teresa
47. “When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.” – Elon Musk
48. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw
49. “There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple, and useful life.” – Booker T. Washington
50. “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi
51. “When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” – Cherokee Expression
52. “If you embrace that the things that you can do are limitless, you can put your ding in the universe. You can change the world.” – Tim Cook
53. “I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable; to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” – Leo C. Rosten
54. “You have a mind. And you have other people. Start with those, and change the world.” – Elizabeth Coleman
55. “Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil, the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.” – William George Jordan
56. “Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.” – Bono
57. “The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.” – John McAfee
58. “How do you change the world? Bring people together. Where is the easiest big place to bring people together? In the work environment.” – Adam Neumann
59. “I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.” – Ellen Goodman
60. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher, can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
61. “I believe it’s time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.” – Janelle Monae
62. “There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.” – Orson Scott Card
63. “You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.” – Julien Smith
64. “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
65. “You really can change the world if you care enough.” – Marian Wright Edelman
66. “We can change our own life and ultimately change the world.” – Kristi Bowman
67. “Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.” – Melinda Gates
68. “Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.” – Leroy Hood
69. “As beings, we should not thrive to change the world but change ourselves. For if we changed ourselves all things are possible.” – Henry Johnson Jr.
70. “Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.” – Laura Marano
71. “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
72. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
73. “The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.” – Jeff Bridges
74. “Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” – Joel A. Barker
75. “Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.” – Yoko Ono
76. “In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.” – Jimi Hendrix
77. “Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.” – Ron Hall
78. “You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.” – Tom Brokaw
79. “It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.” – Vivienne Westwood
80. “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.” – Jack Layton
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2. “If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.” – Chinese Proverb
3. “The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
4. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
5. “I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.” – Maya Angelou
6. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall
7. “No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.” – George Washington
8. “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
9. “It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.” – Tom Brokaw
11. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
12. “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde
13. “A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.” – Albert Schweitzer
14. “There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.” – Sister Mary Rose McGeady
16. “Don't spend your precious time asking, Why isn't the world a better place? It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is, How can I make it better? To that, there is an answer.” – Leo F. Buscaglia
17. “If you can't feed one thousand people, then feed one.” – Mother Teresa
18. “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” – Denis Waitley
19. “During my long life, I have learned one lesson: that the most important thing is to realize why one is alive and I think it is not only to build bridges or tall buildings or make money, but to do something truly important, to do something for humanity. To bring joy, hope, to make life richer for the spirit because you have been alive, that is the most important thing.” – Artur Rubinstein
21. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller
22. “However much I am at the mercy of the world, I never let myself get lost by brooding over its misery. I hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of that misery to an end.” – Albert Schweitzer
23. “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
24. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
26. “I spend my life building the world I want to live in.” – Robin Chase
27. “To love what you do, and feel that it matters. How could anything else be more fun?” – Katharine Graham
28. “Candles melt away as they are used. We often feel we are the same, burning up, burning out, burning down. What we must remember, though, is how we light the room of this world in the time allotted to us.” – Anonymous
29. “I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” – Helen Keller
30. “If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” – Betty Reese
More Change the World Quotes
31. “The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
32. “No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” – Edmund Burke
33. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
34. “Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.” – William Arthur Ward
35. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” – Muhammad Ali
36. “Light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
37. “You can make things happen. You’re in control of change.” – Dyllan McGee
38. “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.” – Woodrow Wilson
39. “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
40. “When someone tells you that you can't do something, perhaps you should consider that they are only telling you what they can't do.” – Sheldon Cahoon
41. “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” – J.K. Rowling
42. “The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.” – Allard Lowenstein
43. “If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.” – William H. McRaven
44. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa
45. “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” – Nelson Mandela
46. “Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier.” – Mother Teresa
47. “When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.” – Elon Musk
48. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw
49. “There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple, and useful life.” – Booker T. Washington
50. “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi
51. “When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” – Cherokee Expression
52. “If you embrace that the things that you can do are limitless, you can put your ding in the universe. You can change the world.” – Tim Cook
53. “I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable; to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” – Leo C. Rosten
54. “You have a mind. And you have other people. Start with those, and change the world.” – Elizabeth Coleman
55. “Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil, the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.” – William George Jordan
56. “Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.” – Bono
57. “The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.” – John McAfee
58. “How do you change the world? Bring people together. Where is the easiest big place to bring people together? In the work environment.” – Adam Neumann
59. “I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.” – Ellen Goodman
60. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher, can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
61. “I believe it’s time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.” – Janelle Monae
62. “There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.” – Orson Scott Card
63. “You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.” – Julien Smith
64. “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
65. “You really can change the world if you care enough.” – Marian Wright Edelman
66. “We can change our own life and ultimately change the world.” – Kristi Bowman
67. “Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.” – Melinda Gates
68. “Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.” – Leroy Hood
69. “As beings, we should not thrive to change the world but change ourselves. For if we changed ourselves all things are possible.” – Henry Johnson Jr.
70. “Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.” – Laura Marano
71. “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
72. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
73. “The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.” – Jeff Bridges
74. “Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” – Joel A. Barker
75. “Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.” – Yoko Ono
76. “In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.” – Jimi Hendrix
77. “Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.” – Ron Hall
78. “You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.” – Tom Brokaw
79. “It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.” – Vivienne Westwood
80. “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.” – Jack Layton
Share these Changing the World Quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.