Here we have the best Change Quotes from famous authors such as Eminem, Millard Fillmore, Gail Sheehy, Rupert Murdoch, Elizabeth Warren. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
The Marines was a fresh start – that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.
As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I’m still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Change before you have to.
It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.
All of Africa‘s resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.
There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
We’re on some path that’s set since we’re born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don’t believe in my fate.
I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
All of the great social justice advances that we ever had in this country have come not from people with big titles and not from people at the top, but just from everyday people getting together saying ‘Enough is enough. I’m going to change this, and I’m going to get involved, and I am going to be engaged.’
Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don’t believe in climate change – they think oil will last forever.
Either you change with the times or you get rolled over.
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I’ve gotten from so many of the adult elders.
Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.
We can’t change the past but we can learn from history and remember the important things – the sacrifices our loved ones made, and the price of our freedom today.
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
Practically everybody knows what it’s like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.
Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that’s when it’s progress.
When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
Change is hard, but change is good.
Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them.
If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Nothing endures but change.
My attitude is govern as if you’ve run your last race. That’s not to say I’ve run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Don’t try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, ‘You loved me when you met me, so let’s keep going!’
I am very fortunate to work with people I have seen on the screen so many times and admired, and they are in the public eye, and I have seen how they handle it. There are definitely ways to just keep on enjoying the profession and the work. Other people tell me that things are going to change.
My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.
Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities – to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.
In many ways, writing is the act of saying ‘I,’ of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, ‘Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.’ It’s an aggressive, even a hostile act.
The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact.
There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.
I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn’t make it clear.
Perhaps it’s the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists – people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change – who stand the best chance of penetrating life’s mysteries.
You can’t change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
We need to stop being so profligate with fossil fuels, to rein back climate change and protect biodiversity. We need to work together, globally, and I’m optimistic that we will.
Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
You change your life by changing your heart.
Change is the end result of all true learning.
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
An experimental idea doesn’t have to be separated from a mainstream context. The really exciting thing is where those two things are together. That’s where you can get real change.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Money is being made programmable. That’s a fundamental change with implications we can still barely see.
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds – but we still have the power to change our own.
Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
The more things change, the more they are the same.
If you’re not changing, you’re not growing; you’re not being present. Change is essential.
Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.
All men can and will change. But there’s only one woman we’re going to change for.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
You put high heels on and you change.
You can’t change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
People cannot change their tidying habits without first changing their way of thinking.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.
Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
Change is such hard work.
Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.
The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will attain high office. By land and sea, he will be feared.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
Climate change isn’t something people get to choose to believe or not: it’s happening.
You change the world by being yourself.
One thing I’m not going to do is change up anything. Like, I’m always gonna be me.
A change of scenery can help everything.
People change and forget to tell each other.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Life is change.
At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the world. I’m very generous, and I really want people to see that I am – that’s really it.
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
Climate change is not just about carbon dioxide levels and melting polar ice caps. It is about our public health and protecting our Earth for future generations.
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.
‘Movement is life;’ and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.
As a businessperson, I don’t have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
The key to change… is to let go of fear.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
There are always people who are into the old way of doing things. I don’t think it’s a bad thing necessarily, but things change – nothing stays the same. If you can stay true to yourself, you’re always going to be legendary.
There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. And if you don’t have some kind of global cooperation, nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it’s climate change or whether it’s technological disruption.
Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
It seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Sometimes, change is a good thing.
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.
We don’t change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
On climate change, we often don’t fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.
There is no Left and Right any more. Left and Right is irrelevant… We need big change. We’ve got to get back control of our country.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Social change comes through people.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
Change and growth is so painful. But it’s so necessary for us to evolve.
Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn’t change a thing!
You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.
Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.
Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.
I’m a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.
Change is always good. It brings you to a new place.
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.
We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn’t just being book-smart or having a college degree; it’s trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
I’m very interested in how people change.
When you are through changing, you are through.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
I’m really living my dream so if I were to change anything up, I probably wouldn’t be where I am.
And if you can change Addis, definitely you can change Ethiopia.
People change all the time.
But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change – as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
A zebra does not change its spots.
There is nothing so stable as change.
Dr. Seuss said, ‘No one can be you-er than you,’ and Oscar Wilde said, ‘Be yourself because everyone else is taken.’ So I just try to continue to be who I am and don’t change that. And I’m a little chameleon, so I can fit in wherever I am.
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.
You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
If you never change your mind, why have one?
All things are only transitory.
Thankfully, dreams can change. If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.
Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.
Change alone is unchanging.
Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that’s always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that’s what you are.
I do believe that clean water is the most efficient way to change the world.
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
We have a duty to show up in the world with meaning and purpose and commitment to doing good. And to use any privilege that we have to make positive change and to disrupt oppressive systems.
I’m very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that’s it.
Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
It’s normal in a top club that people change.
Make no mistake about it: Change is hard, but change is necessary.
A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
Every player needs a little time to adjust to new teammates and the mentality of the coach when you change clubs.
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.
I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
It’s hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing – which I think is what we have – gives us ‘1984.’
Money does not change people, people change.
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.
If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Exploiting people’s emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it’s not change, it’s partisanship. We don’t need partisanship. We don’t need demagoguery, we need solutions.
It hasn’t always been easy. There’s a lot of hard moments. Sometimes you learn from the end of the bench. Sometimes you learn from injuries. Sometimes you learn the most through the hard things. If you can keep a good attitude and keep on working, eventually situations change, and you can put those things to use.
Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn’t mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense – the idea that anyone can make it.
When we lose, we don’t have to change everything but correct things by working hard.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
The moment you’ve convinced someone that you truly understand her dreams and feelings, mental and behavioral change becomes possible, and the foundation for a breakthrough has been laid.
The president can’t change the country on his own. But what can he do? He can give an example.
It’s always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can’t change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are – rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call ‘global challenges,’ which require global solidarity.
Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it’s too late.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
By the time we get to the 2040s, we’ll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that’s singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.
Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.
A hero is someone right who doesn’t change.
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
Trust me, you can’t change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It’s impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It’s the force for progressive social change.
The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who will see violence as the shortcut to change.
All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.
Maybe you’re not perfect, but you’re willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That’s a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there’s something incredibly hopeful about that.
If you embrace that the things that you can do are limitless, you can put your ding in the universe. You can change the world.
The world is at a big risk from climate change. We have to come up with solutions, to bring in a sustainable economy.
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
People don’t want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it’s different.
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Don’t manage – lead change before you have to.
Don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.
The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That’s your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg.
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Failure doesn’t exist. It’s only a change of direction.
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
If someone doesn’t like something, it’s their prerogative not to like it. It’s not possible to please everyone. That doesn’t mean that I’m going to change my mental make-up. I follow my instinct.
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change… you will change.
Every successful social movement in this country’s history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.
Change doesn’t always mean progress, but the status quo isn’t always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.
There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you.
I can’t change my personality. I’ll always smile, but I’ll be more focused.
I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.
You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don’t need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision – a way to be more successful – they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
I’m like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same.
Every few years, I change my look for the simple reason that I get bored. If you Google Image me, you will see so many different looks: long hair, short hair, clean shaven, beard, etc.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can’t put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You’ll never learn.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
What’s dangerous is not to evolve.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
The blockchain is going to change everything more than the Internet has.
I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
We can’t change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.
But I think it’s more that when you’re young, you’re invincible, you’re immortal – or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you’re inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It’s fixed. You can’t change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
I always feel good after I change my hair. You get a haircut and feel positive and ready to take on the day.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves.
Although circumstances may change in the blink of an eye, people change at a slower pace. Even motivated people who welcome change often encounter stumbling blocks that make transformation more complicated than they’d originally anticipated.
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.
There’s no sense in going to a tournament if you don’t believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
People don’t change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance… And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
Blockchain technology isn’t just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
A lot can change in the editing room.
When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment.
A change of environment is pretty refreshing.
If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?’
People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don’t you feel a certain alienation?
I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.
I think women should start to embrace their age. What’s the alternative to getting older? You die. I can’t change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it’s not the kind of thing where you can compromise.
Both Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama pursued policies of regime change after 9/11 – with Bush removing al-Qaida’s safe haven in Afghanistan and the sadistic anti-American dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq – but Obama took it a step further and disregarded regional stability as a guiding factor for U.S. policy.
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
The ‘self-image‘ is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
If you feel like it’s difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
All I want to do is change the world.
When you’re a catalyst for change, you make enemies – and I’m proud of the ones I’ve got.
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Being reminded about the incredible power of God’s love, and living as He intended, is the most powerful motivation to change.
Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.
It’s funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they’ve changed completely.
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn’t necessarily be good.
Climate change and air pollution know no borders, and antibiotics resistance respects no boundaries. Bacteria from Africa can make people in America sick. The burning of Indonesian forests can keep Asia gasping for breath.
The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.
People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
You can change friends but not neighbours.
I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we’re having a change. We’re going to let her in.
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe – things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it’s actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.
We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
It was like a complicit – there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the ‘Indian problem,’ solving the ‘Indian problem,’ and trying to change who we were.
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes – and as with memes in their original version.
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
I benefit from a change of scenery; it’s always inspiring.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Not only is women’s work never done, the definition keeps changing.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
The notion of superhumans is using bioengineering and artificial intelligence to upgrade human abilities. If they use the power to change themselves, to change their own minds, their own desires, then we have no idea what they will want to do.
How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.
Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.
Epigenetics doesn’t change the genetic code, it changes how that’s read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won’t be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.
Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.
This pandemic has provided an opportunity to reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems, that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.
I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
People can cry much easier than they can change.
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
The great growling engine of change – technology.
You can change the circumstances but you can never change man’s inner nature.
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
Peace, unity, love, and nonviolence should be our rallying cry and the catalyst for change in our nation.
The good and bad things are what form us as people… change makes us grow.
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.
I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person – you are a different person. It’s superficial change that can lead to real change.
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
If you love someone – like, truly love someone – I don’t think that ever goes away. But what does change is your perspective on the relationship and the dynamic.
Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn’t become complacency. If you say, ‘We’re not going to change; we didn’t do it that way before,’ then you’ve become too old.
Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.
You don’t have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life’s about change.
Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.
Things do not change; we change.
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
It’s never too late to get fit; it’s never too late to feel good and confident and change the way you eat and train. Just give it a go and momentum will take you the rest of the way.
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too.
