I like talking about it, I like talking about world change. I like talking about things that you want to do in your community.
If you can't go where people are happier, try to make people happier where you are.
We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people take extraordinary action. To be a miracle doesn't mean you have to tackle problems across the globe. It means making a difference in your own living room, cubicle, neighborhood, community.
I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.
I get up each and every day trying to do my level best to make Victoria a better place.
Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.
Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.
What I keep going back to, and what keeps me going, is trying to do good in whatever little spot of the world we can influence, no matter how small.
Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you
Building one garden in L.A. - it might be a nice gesture - but it won't make a difference. We have to start to change the culture of the community.
An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.
By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.
You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change.
The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.
You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.
You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.
I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.
Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he or she lives better and happier. Bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may flow.
Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things.
I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,’ she siad. ‘You know, actually change something.’ ‘What, like “change the world”, you mean?’ ‘Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.
