Haile Gebrselassie Quotes

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

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.

One man can make a difference and every man should try.

I always go back to the fact that one man can make a difference. No matter what the issue, we always have the power to change it.

Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

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.

I want to get the message out that everybody can make a difference.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

I really believe in the power of the individual to make change, and our family is a real collection of individuals.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.

I can't save the world, but if I can share some ideas, people might be able to save themselves.

I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.

When we make these decisions that we're going to commit ourselves to making a difference in the life of one person every single day, what happens is we actually build a whole generation of citizen leaders.

I sort of have this feeling about change in general. We can make baby steps on a macro level. We can try to shift policy, voting and changing who's in office. But we can make huge, sweeping changes on a personal level and in your immediate circle, or just the people around you.

We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.