Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

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

If we all give our power to one person, that's what the world will be. If we all decide to make the world a beautiful place, it'll be a beautiful place.

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community.

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

I want to get the message out that everybody can make a difference.

I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

We actually have a real community of people doing useful things.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.

If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create.

When I see Kickstarter, I don't see a company. Instead, I see a social movement. I see people doing things for people.

When you're dealing with a small community, every person counts.

We came together [with King Hussein of Jordan] because of a shared sense of idealism, of the value of service to a community far greater than ourselves, and the conviction that each and everyone of us can meaningfully contribute to solving even the most seemingly intractable problems.

Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.

We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power.

I think people often forget how powerful they are. Sometimes it just takes one voice to save a life. When we speak up we can not only change a life or save a life, but we can also make it possible for other people to speak up. If we harness the collective power of people's voices around America to address the opioid epidemic, I have no doubt that we can overcome it.