Bob Goff Quotes

Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.

Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.

It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

The motive power of democracy is love.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.

Every now and then, I am reminded it's not always about politics. It's about people.

We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is absurd, and that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such persons know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big.

We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.

Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.

Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first.

Leadership is no longer about position - but passion. It's no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0.