Angelina Jolie Quotes

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.

One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.

I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.

People need to believe they can make a difference - that one person standing strong can turn the tide.

The ultimate solution is not in the hands of the government. The solution falls on each and every individual, with guidance from family, friends and community. The #1 responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow. This is of greater importance than working on changing the government; that is secondary to promoting a virtuous society. If we can achieve this, then the government will change.

In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.

You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.

Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.

Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?

A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference.

I really feel strongly that we can make change for every person. And it will be radical in the person's life.

I cannot change you. I cannot change other people. So I have decided to put all of my energy where I have the most leverage , where I know I can make a difference. Instead of being upset that this world is not populated the way I want it to be populated, I have decided to become the citizen that I want the world to be populated with. That's how I create the vision.

The only person I can change is the one in the mirror.

Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se; some set out to change their own worlds. And in so doing, they often change the way one person, or a few people, or whole communities, or entire nations or the world thinks and operates in some significant way.

I tried to make some difference, and I think I managed to do that.