Best 84 quotes in «be the change quotes» category

Agony can bring greatness out of a person, but in the process, the person has to walk barefoot on red-hot coal while bleeding from all over the being.

All my life, I kept waiting for things to get better. For the bright promise of mañana. But a funny thing happened while I was waiting for the world to change, Chabele: It didn't. Because I didn't change it.

Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone's heart.

All the good that every came to this world, came from fools.

A wish is a single unit of hope. It’s a single request for something I dearly desire.

Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circumstance could change and you may need it.

Be the candle that burns alone in darkness so that the world around can have some light.

Be the action and bring the change. Leave the rest to the law of causality. Be bold enough to cause something to happen and it will happen.

Be the help to humanity, be the might to humanity, be the light to humanity and be 911 to humanity.

Be the witness of the turning of the human universe, as you yourself become the cause of that very turn.

Ask any dreamer, it's not an easy road, But to them; they never questioned, what they'd always known.

Break yourself, if needed, for a greater purpose, and die like a legend, instead of crawling your whole life like a mind-less insect.

Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.

Don't be afraid that things are changing, because indeed they always are.

Do something so radical that you become the very first of your kind in that deed, and you shall never be forgotten so long as human life exists.

Don't hang out with people who are: Ungrateful Unhelpful Unruly Unkindly Unloving Unambitious Unmotivated or make you feel... Uncomfortable

Don't miss the greatest opportunity of your life holding on to the bitterness that was caused by one person that has nothing to do with the organization as a whole.

Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifices people are capable once they have found the right way. His work for the liberation of India is a living testimony to the fact that a will governed by firm conviction is stronger than a seemingly invincible material power.

Elusive courage will be necessary, but I have the supporting cast to turn things around and move in the right direction again.

Every kind word or action has an equal reaction. What you put out comes back to you. Why not make it caring and joyful?

From dust we are born, in dust we'll merge, but the journey in between must be made meaningful, not for ourselves mark you, but for the countless more humans to come.

Given that I don’t know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one?

Go down the dusty and agonizing road of self-annihilation if necessary, so that you can save yourself as well as humanity from our primitive past.

Go out into the world and act. Act with all the might in your veins. Act with all the conscience in your nerves. Act beyond all dogmas, doctrines and discriminations, so that the humanity of tomorrow will be grateful to you for delivering them a world of acceptance, a world of humaneness, and above all, a world of a unified progressive humankind.

Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together. Stories are the mud from which we're all made. The power to imagine stories is the power to remake the world as we dream it.

However, it’s usually random acts of good intent, like this one, which get you into the worst trouble in the long run. They say that if you want to change the world then you should be that change you want to see. Well that’s what Gandhi said and see what they did to him. Ya, random acts of good intent are the ones that just might get you killed. The further you stick your neck out for others the more likely it’s going to chopped, or at least get a large heavy albatross around it.

How to change the world: • spread positivity • bring people up instead of dragging them down • treat others the way you wish to be treated

Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual.

Every journey towards change begins with awareness.

Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen.

Hope is a helium balloon. It is a wish lantern set out into the dark sky of night.

I am a simple candle burning in darkness and solitude, while giving light to the whole world.

If I’m going to have hope, I’m going to have to learn to endure disappointment.

If the educated youth remain indifferent to the problems of this world, the whole human civilization is bound to tarnish.

If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.

If we all gave to charity as much as we give to movie theaters on a monthly basis, I believe we could end hunger.

If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online.

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.

If you want more kindness in the world, put some there.

If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform.

If you want to bring change, then you must not believe, rather you must perceive - perceive what others can't - imagine what others aren't capable of - and act in a way others wouldn't dare to.

I don't care for the colour of your skin, I care for the size of your heart behind it.

I just want to live in a way that either wakes people up or shakes people up. Whether I have opened a wound or opened a heart, I have touched a life and helped bring a change.

In order to be effective, be responsive. In order to be responsive, listen.

Instead of looking for love, look to love.

Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.

I stopped remembering the past and started visualising my future, the only thing left I could hold onto was hope; that the courage I have found along the way, is what will see me through.

Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change.

Mind not the mocking and keep on walking.

Navigating change is the new stability.