Win Butler Quotes

I have people who want to pull me into specific projects in the community based on my music and on the mixtapes. It's like, it's the truth but I'm not trying to preach to you. Because who am I to say what's really right or wrong, or whether what I say is going to change anything? I don't take it too seriously; it's really whimsical.

Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.

The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.

One person really can make a difference.

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.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

If I'm able to use my voice to do good in the world then I definitely want to do that.

I go where the good work is being done.

I only want to be involved in projects that have a very good and important message.

There's only so much I can do to effect change - and really, the thing that I can do that's most effective is to work and to do good work. That, I feel, is speaking out in its own way.

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

After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.

I wanted to be a positive force in the world.

You've got a bunch of kids out here that might not want to be athletes, but they want to learn how to make a difference in their community, and I'm trying to as best I can show an example of that.

I feel I was very fortunate to be in the position to do something positive, to make a contribution to change. It gave me terrific satisfaction.

I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.

I just want to do something meaningful in the world. I want to contribute positively. That means the roles I get to play as well.

When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

I just do what I can do to be one of the people who make a difference.

You don't have to be a leader of a big organization. You can be a leader of your brother, of a young kid, of your community. That way you affect life, someway, somehow.

Running a business is making a difference in people's lives

I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it is a difference in people's lives.

I usually like to get people in because I don't have a band or anything. In cities where I have friends, I try to get them to come out and dance for me.

If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver.