Jim Wallis Quotes

If I can change, anybody can change.

My mom reminds me that all things are possible.

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

Most important about what Ashoka is doing is that they make people believe that change is possible. That belief can go viral.

I hope I just keep continuing to inspire a lot of people and trying to make a change in this world.

When there is hope in the future, there is power in the present, and since hope is the foundational quality of all change, there is considerable reason to be excited.

If there's anything you're not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

There is hope. You can do it. Start now.

Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.

If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

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

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action.

My big inspiration for hope is the courage that I read about from people from all over the world, or that I see on a daily basis from the kids I get to work with.

The gift my mother gave me was the gift of possibility. From an early age, she instilled in me a belief that I could do anything I wanted to do. It wasn't a matter of, 'Can I?' or 'Should I?' It was just, 'You can, you must, you will!' She wanted me to believe that anything was possible.

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.