Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

You don't have to stay where you are; you can make a change.

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

You can have an impact anywhere you are.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

You never, ever give up the chance to change things, ever, no matter how hard it is. If you're elected, and have got the opportunity to make a difference, you take it.

In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

If you want to change things, it requires bravery.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

If there's anything you're not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

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.

If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.

There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.

If you want to change this world, this community that we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.