Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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

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

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.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.

One man can make a difference and every man should try.

Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.

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

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.

I really believe in the power of the individual to make change, and our family is a real collection of individuals.

I don't know if it's so grand that I can change the entire world, but I know that I can help one person. So that's the goal.

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.

No one person can change the world, but one and one and one add up.

I believe the people of Compton are ready for change. They've spoken. Their voice has clearly been heard that they don't want to go backward. They want to go forward.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

If you want to effect change, start small.

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.

Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.

You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.

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)