Quotes About Change

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Gone are the days when basic needs were food, shelter and clothing. Money replaced everything.

The person who made a calendar Her girlfriend chucked him on 30th Feb. He removed that date on calendar.

After every winter, a flower will bloom.

My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done.

Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Children make you want to start life over.

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

If you wish to be heard in the noise of this world, let your soul be dominated by a single idea. It is the man with a single idea who creates political and social revolutions, establishes empires and gives law to the world.

Ba kuja sar niham keh chun zanjir Har dare halqa-e dare digar-ast (Hide—but where? Each door I close opens another.) —Anonymous (found in a ghazal by Mir Taqi Mir)

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Poverty is unnecessary.

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

Motion and transformation take place in both quality and quantity--in the very substance of things.

[Referring to the Arab Spring:] The people were ruled for decades in fear of regimes. This year the fear was overtaken by hope and dreams of change.

He embraced political power not as an end in itself, but for what it could accomplish for the betterment of society;