Driving Change Quotes

Men make history, not the other way around.

We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?

Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.

The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.

Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.

We're driving the largest cleanup in history.

Seeing people in person is a big part of how you drive any change process. You have to show people a positive view of the future and say "we can do it"

Sometimes I feel like I'm not only the engine but the caboose. I have to be in the front car and pull forward, and at the same time run around behind and push everybody along with me.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.

If you want change, create the causes.

No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.

I want to be the team that creates the action more than be the reactor.

I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of projects.

Business needs to push the agenda rather than waiting for it to happen.

The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.

Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

The ability to have influence and create change and drive the strategy of an organization is really what excites me.

At best, policy is about protecting the rights of all workers while also driving fair competition and enabling opportunity. It is about making the future work for everyone. At worst, policy tries to resist change and creates uneven playing fields that eventually hurt everyone.

If you want to change this world, this community that we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.

I'm probably a little too impatient with ensuring that the networks and organizations I'm part of are doing the right thing, and pushing the right thing the right way.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

The Rise credo is about accepting no limits, alternative thinking, and driving positive change - the three pillars.

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.