Be The Change Quotes

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

You can't change the fruit without changing the root.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

We need a new concept of reality and a new set of values for things to change in a positive direction. LSD could help to generate such a new concept.

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change

Nothing changes, until you change. Everything changes, once you change

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

They believe the bible is the exact word of God - Then they change the bible! Pretty presumptuous, hu huh? "I think what God meant to say..."

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.

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.

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.

Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.

Change begets change.

Resistance to change is always the biggest obstacle.

She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.

If Sting retires, would he have to change his name to Stung?

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue

If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing.

You have a great destiny before you. This is your moment! I truly believe that one virtuous young woman, led by the Spirit, can change the world.

Once any of us conclude- 'That's just the way I am,' we give up our ability to change.

What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.