Change Quotes

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.

I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen--

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.

If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress

In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

Turn towards love, and become love.

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

The absurd man is he who never changes.

The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

Change lays her hand not upon the truth.

The hearts of great men can be changed.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities.

I believe in entrepreneurs. I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I'm a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn't talk too much.

I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the balance. I'm 6ft and I'm 70kg so I haven't much fat on me.