100+ Inspiring Good Trouble Quotes for Bold Change
The modern world is a mosaic of voices that dare to make waves and challenge norms, and among them, the concept of "good trouble" stands out like a beacon of hope. "Good trouble," a term popularized by the late civil rights leader John Lewis, urges individuals to engage in actions that are positive disruption for social justice and equity. This article dives into ten diverse areas, showcasing an array of profound quotes that inspire change and affirm the immense power of standing up for what's right. From history-makers to contemporary thinkers, their words are challenging, encouraging, and relentlessly powerful. Whether upending archaic traditions or igniting fresh perspectives, "good trouble" serves as a mantra for bravery and impact. Join us as we explore these ten thematic subsections, each infused with twelve thought-provoking jewel-like quotes, that nudge the human spirit towards courageous rebellion with purpose.
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?" - John F. Kennedy
"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice." - William Faulkner
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them." - Frederick Douglass
"I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, we have to treat them as unnecessary." - Audre Lorde
"Radical simply means grasping things at the root." - Angela Davis
"There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives." - Audre Lorde
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do." - Steve Jobs
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Justice is what love looks like in public." - Cornel West
"No matter where you are from, your dreams are valid." - Lupita Nyong'o
"Your silence will not protect you." - Audre Lorde
"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful." - Malala Yousafzai
"Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet." - Alice Walker
"To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us." - Virginia Satir
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic." - J.K. Rowling
"One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world." - Malala Yousafzai
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." - Gloria Steinem
"The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind." - Napoleon Hill
"Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse." - Bruce Cockburn
"There are times when things fall apart so that new things can be put together." - Unknown
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"Every moment is a fresh beginning." - T.S. Eliot
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - Banksy
"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." - Bertolt Brecht
"Creativity takes courage." - Henri Matisse
"The creative adult is the child who survived." - Ursula K. Le Guin
"To create one’s own world takes courage." - Georgia O’Keeffe
"Art speaks where words are unable to explain." - Unknown
"There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen." - Helen Frankenthaler
"The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before." - Neil Gaiman
"Art is not emotion. Art is the intersection of emotions and intellect." - Jeffrey Deitch
"In art, what we make creates us." - Jeanette Winterson
"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak." - G.K. Chesterton
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." - Pablo Picasso
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." - Aristotle
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
"To find yourself, think for yourself." - Socrates
"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates
"If you want to be happy, be." - Leo Tolstoy
"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
"It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." - William Shakespeare
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." - Lao Tzu
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." - Socrates
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share." - Ginni Rometty
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today." - Will Rogers
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." - Wayne Gretzky
"Failure is another stepping stone to greatness." - Oprah Winfrey
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
"It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." - Bill Gates
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." - Aristotle
"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you." - Steve Jobs
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson
"Imagination is the beginning of creation." - George Bernard Shaw
"If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got." - Albert Einstein
"What is now proved was once only imagined." - William Blake
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." - Albert Einstein
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
"Innovation is taking two things that exist and putting them together in a new way." - Tom Freston
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein
"Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people." - Leo Burnett
"Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything." - Unknown
"Creativity is intelligence having fun." - Albert Einstein
"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little." - Plato
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures." - Albert Einstein
"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Don't count the days, make the days count." - Muhammad Ali
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage." - Anais Nin
"Dream big and dare to fail." - Norman Vaughan
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." - Maya Angelou
"Turn your wounds into wisdom." - Oprah Winfrey
"Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart." - Roy T. Bennett
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." - Roy T. Bennett
"Believe you can and you’re halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
"I can’t do everything, but I can do something. And I won’t let what I can’t do interfere with what I can do." - Edward Everett Hale
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." - Charles R. Swindoll
"Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others." - Roy T. Bennett
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston S. Churchill
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson
"If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining." - Guy Finley
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." - William James
"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." - Brian Tracy
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Your best life doesn’t happen by accident, it happens by design." - Max Lucado
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