Inspiring Words of Change

1. Change is inevitable, but growth is optional. Choose wisely.
2. The only way to make a difference is to be different.
3. Life is about constantly evolving and embracing change.
4. Don’t be afraid of change, it’s the only way to grow.
5. The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
6. If you want to see change, you must be the change.
7. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
8. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
9. Don’t wait for change, create it.
10. Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, but gorgeous at the end.
11. Be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
12. Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. – Simone de Beauvoir
13. Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change. – Wayne Dyer
14. You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. – William Faulkner
15. Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. – Khalil Gibran
16. “For the past can be changed, and the future is yet in your power.” – Unknown
17. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
18. “Change is inevitable, but transformation is a choice.” – Unknown

1. You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know. – William Wilberforce

2. We are too indifferent to cruelty and injustice. Compassion, charity, and benevolence are virtues infinitely superior to all the arts and sciences. – William Wilberforce

3. Never, never will we desist till we extinguish every trace of this bloody traffic, of which our posterity, looking back to the history of these enlightened times will scarce believe that it has been suffered to exist so long a disgrace and dishonour to this country. – William Wilberforce

4. Powerful warm affections work in half the species almost like a second reason, and at every impulse practically are found stronger than reason. – William Wilberforce

5. Let everyone regulate his conduct… by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him. – William Wilberforce

6. You have made my view of success very clear. You may justifiably feel proud. I feel very proud. You have throughout been unwearied in your attentions to me, and I feel most grateful to you. – William Wilberforce

7. There is a set of subjects which by general acknowledgment is excluded from the interests of commerce and the concerns of business. The first is religion, the second is war, and the third is slavery. – William Wilberforce

8. It will always be a raucous game of heads or tails. – William Wilberforce

9. The context of truth will be remembered as having no definite meaning. – William Wilberforce

10. If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large. – William Wilberforce

11. A private faith that does not act in the face of oppression is no faith at all. – William Wilberforce

12. Never let it be said of you that you are too rich to give a farthing, too wise to learn, or too young to teach. – William Wilberforce

13. I do not love the rhetoric of Gloria Steinem, myself. It seems a bit too strident. – William Wilberforce

14. The injury was given when we ceased to plead the cause of the slave, who still languishes in his chains. – William Wilberforce

15. No man gets a bad omelet by accident. – William Wilberforce

16. The Lord has done great things for us, whereof we are glad. – William Wilberforce

17. Do not let the pathetic easy-going way of easy tasks discourage you. – William Wilberforce

18. Silence is better than unmeaning words. – William Wilberforce

1. You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know. – William Wilberforce

2. We intend to go to work immediately and continue that work until all foreign troops are removed from our country. – William Wilberforce

3. Let everyone regulate his conduct… by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him. – William Wilberforce

4. Let us put our trust in God and in His capacity to lead us all to a better world. – William Wilberforce

5. If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large. – William Wilberforce

6. You can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know. – William Wilberforce

7. Our convenience must not sink us in the scale of being, nor must the consideration of what is admitted as the standard of fashion influence the measure of our approbation. – William Wilberforce

8. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – William Wilberforce

9. In the Scripture the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, but call things by their right names, and it comes to be only a clean and a tender affecition to a God of infinite purity – William Wilberforce

10. Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the almighty, that by doing our duty in the civil and Christian relations in which we are placed, we shall obtain his blessing. – William Wilberforce

11. Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation. – William Wilberforce

12. And we are farther from secure peace than when we were nearer to it. – William Wilberforce

13. If I am not for myself, who will be? And when I am for myself, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when? – William Wilberforce

14. I have been blessed to have been sent on a mission by God. – William Wilberforce

15. In a good cause, there are no failures. No valour is in vain in behalf of a righteous cause. – William Wilberforce

16. To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. – William Wilberforce

17. Our young women have been ambitious. – William Wilberforce

18. You can make a difference and deserve all the success you can make happen. – William Wilberforce

1. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. – Martin Luther King Jr.
2. It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. – Audre Lorde
3. The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King Jr.
4. The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln
5. An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. – Nelson Mandela
6. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. – Theodore Parker
7. In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. – Michael Jackson
8. Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. – Octavia E. Butler
9. The power of the people is stronger than the people in power. – Wael Ghonim
10. We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
11. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
12. Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. – Pope John Paul II
13. Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. – Harriet Tubman
14. Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. – Benjamin Franklin
15. Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
16. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela
17. There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. – Elie Wiesel
18. The only way to deal with injustice is to shine a light on it, no matter how uncomfortable that may be. – Glenn Greenwald