Pete Seeger Quotes

It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.

When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.

It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

Remember, nobody changes the world on their own.

Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.” — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are overwhelmed by a feeling of "Help! What on earth can I, just one person, do about this?" Take heart. That's a sane response. It's the basis for a whole new attitude to world problems, where change at the level of the individual is more and more recognised as essential to change in huge world systems.

If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

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

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it.

I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.

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

When we, as a nation, put our minds to something, when we truly choose to care about something, change always happens.

We want to inspire people to work together, giving them hope that we can do something even if we cannot do everything.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

Of course an individual can make a huge difference but it is when those individuals come together with like-minded souls that they can change the world for ever and importantly for the better.