Change Quotes

Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.

The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.

I didn't change the world.

Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.

When you walk down the street of Kabul your values for life changes, they do change.

I run for president because I believe that we can't just save the American dream; we can expand it to reach more people and change more lives than ever before.

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.

Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in ways that might initially scare you. That can be being an architect of change.

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.

You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

You have to endure what you can't change.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

I love 40's-60's fashion because it suits the type of figure that I have the most, so that's what I always go for. I won't change!

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.

When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart.

It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

I recommend that you change colleges.

Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.

Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change those principles.

Goes the song, "we change, we change." But the music is still mine.

What is it about sameness that so draws me, and how could I begin to have that same kind of attraction to change?