Change Quotes

Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

Britain needs to change its immigration system - and the only way to do that is to vote Leave.

We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.

History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast?

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.

All things are in a state of flux.

If you touch the hearts of people you can get people's minds to change, but you have to show them the beauty of not aborting a life.

Never waste a good crisis...Don't waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security.

Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system.

Every day is a crossroads. Every day is a chance to change your life and our world for the better.

I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]

Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something...Many of us are fundamentalists...because it worked pretty well for us.

If you want change, it has to be generational. We have this unbelievable opportunity to make that change. Entertainment enables us to entice and educate mass audiences into a shift of consciousness.

I see massive potential for entertainment to create wide sweeping change.

The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.

I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

Sometimes to win, you have to change the game.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

I know that eventually, I'll have to change my life and my career, but I've got a lot of good years left in me yet.

The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it.

No one can really picture an African as a businessman. In order to change the current situation, it would be helpful if the aid organizations were to pull out.

When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls.

Women are rising. It's going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the power. Women will always be the leaders of change.

I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better!

every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.

here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out

It is always hard to believe that the will to change something does not produce an immediate change.

I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

I tell you, the economy is in bad shape. In fact, the economy is so bad, President Barack Obama's new slogan is 'Spare Change You Can Believe In.'

Canada's north is going to change a lot in the new few years. We have every resource imaginable up north.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

When the correct technique feels wrong, different and confusing there is change and grow

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

We need to move beyond asking what drug will treat the symptoms, and instead ask what mechanism creates altered neurochemical or neurobiological function or systemic physiological change.

I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That - and no sleep!

Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.