Jim Wallis Quotes

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.

Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world.

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

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)

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

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.

There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

If you want to change the world - I do - you have to start with yourself.

We are the change we're waiting for.

This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.

If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.

Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?

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

The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue. Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.

How do we make the world work?

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.