Cesar Chavez Quotes

He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.

Men make history. History does not make the man.

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 can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

I guess one person can make a difference.

I'd like to say that people... people can change anything they want to; and that means everything in the world. Show me any country and there'll be people in it. And it's the people that make the country. People have got to stop pretending they're not on the world... It's time to take that humanity back into the center of the ring and follow that for a time... Think on that. Without people you're nothing.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

Each person can make their difference.

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

The world cares little for principles. They care for persons.

People can make a real difference. One person at a time, one job at a time, one life at a time.

It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.

It depends on each and every one of me.

We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.

Things don't just happen, people make them happen

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

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

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

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.