Hey Everyone!
I searched the web for some of the most inspirational, empowering and exciting quotes. I try to avoid the cookie-cutter and meaningless quotes that just sound good that many of us are so use to hearing. 
1. Let’s go into every country that will let us in [and] ask 1,001 people what they want the [world’s] new goals to be.
— Jamie Drummond
2. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
3. “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”- Steve Jobs, Apple Computers Ad “Think Different”
4. “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
5. Don’t assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.
— Nathan Wolfe
6. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” -Albert Einstein
7. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” — Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
8. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” –George Bernard Shaw
9. “Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” — William Jennings Bryan
10. We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.
— Alex Steffen
11.“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do, how would I be and what would I do?” Buckminister Fuller
12. “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”– Rainer Rilke
13. Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work — whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty — is the great task of our generation as a whole.
— Atul Gawande
14. Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.”
—Jared Diamond
15. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Richard Buckminster Fuller
16. “A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.” – Richard Bach, One
17. “One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
18. “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
19. “The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.” – Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
20. “Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.” – Seth Godin
21. It’s not just enough to survive. We’ve got to make something better than what we’ve got.
— Alex Steffen
22.Don’t wait until you make your first million to make a difference in somebody’s life. If you have something to give, give it now.
— Mark Bezos
23.What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.
-Jody Williams
24. If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.
— Derek Sivers
25. We have a choice to make during our brief visit to this beautiful blue and green living planet: to hurt it or to help it.
— Ray Anderson
26. For civilization to make progress, each generation has to do better than the last one.
— Hector Ruiz
27. The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.
— Steven Pinker
28. Someone, at some point, came up with this very bad idea that an ordinary individual couldn’t make a difference in the world. I think that’s just a horrible thing.
— Jeff Skoll
29.Explore your web — the needs, the beliefs, the emotions that are controlling you … so there’s more of you to give … and so you can appreciate what’s driving other people. It’s the only way our world’s going to change.
— Tony Robbins
30. “The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.” —Paulo Coelho
31. “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.”
– Jeff Bezos
32. “Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.”
― Bill Drayton, Leading Social Entrepreneurs Changing the World
33. “Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence, and power. Indeed, business all too often pulls the strings of government. Competing institutions-religion, the press, even the military-play subordinate roles in much of the world today. If a values-driven approach to business can begin to redirect this vast power toward more constructive ends than the simple accumulation of wealth, the human race and Planet Earth will have a fighting chance.”
― Ben Cohen, Values-Driven Business: How to Change the World, Make Money, and Have Fun
34. Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, ‘We kept charity overhead low.’ We want it to read that we changed the world.
—Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong
35. “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn’t matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
36. “Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who’s willing to risk everything to make it happen.”
― Sam Childers, Another Man’s War: The True Story of One Man’s Battle to Save Children in the Sudan
37. “The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.”
― Hugh MacLeod
38. “But I do know this: no quest, no matter how easy or hard, is ever accomplished without first the will to see it done. So, you have the will, and where there is a will, there is a way.”
― C.S. Einfeld, Neverdark
39. “Status quos are made to be broken.” ― Ray Davis
40. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
Let me know which one was your favorite! Any that I may have missed?
Leave a comment and let me know. 🙂
-with love, Hodan X
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