Bill Cosby Quotes

People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

This book [March], in my estimation, is a road map. It is a change agent. It is saying to people, "This is a way".

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.

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

If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be able to create a happier, more peaceful world. But you can't take for granted that it will happen by itself, you'll need to take action.

I'm always asking people to do something in their mind [first]. So if they're gonna do one exercise, it would be to ask themselves what they want to change about themselves in the next 12 weeks. Once they solve that, the body will follow.

You're always going to have dangerous, disaffected people in any society, and some will be violent. Increasing prosperity and reducing inequality won't solve that completely. But having big, positive dreams and a society that makes it possible to achieve those dreams is what we must strive for.

The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can, hopefully, awaken people and change minds. I think it depends on who’s piloting the plane.

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice.

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

Over the years I've become more confident in people's ability to recognize a good thing.

It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.

People who make mistakes and learn from them are role models too. I'm just happy to inspire growth and positivity.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning, you will get somewhere, and I'll tell you where you get: You'll get to the description of what happens to the winners under the system that they're building.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

We're going to do a lot of work on the inner cities, I have great people lined up to help.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

I always encourage people to start in their own personal universe, because sometimes we as parents start thinking about the big picture. How do I change what's happening in my entire school? And how do I do it in my community? And then you get overwhelmed and it's just like, "Forget it, I'll just stay here in my kitchen and wait." But, start small.