Change Quotes

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.

We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.

Obviously you follow the law of the land, there are many laws I disagree with, but you follow the law. You fight to change the law, you don't break the law. I believe that's the American way.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

We are more apt to change our minds when right than wrong.

Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.

My administration will be more supportive of the good works done here than any administration in the history of this country because I understand the power of faith, that faith can change lives.

This nation is daring and decent and ready for change.

My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

The United States and rich countries cannot change Africa from within. It has to impose reform on Africa; it has to come from within.

If you say, "Are you going to change your strategic objective?", it means you're leaving before the mission is complete, and we're not going to leave before the mission in Iraq is complete.

I'm comfortable with time. Time will change.

Perceptions change with time and you can't rush it, in my judgment.

I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

Liberty can change habits.

That's important when you are running an organization so that the people who work with you know what you believe in and know those beliefs won't change.

So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.

What I really think is going to happen over time is technology is going to change the way we live for the good for the environment.

Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish.

We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction.

I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.

Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

I've seen that most people change as they get older.

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

I am impressed with America's capacity for change, and their ability to bring someone as inspirational as Barack Obama into the White House.

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

I didn't change much in terms of my setup or how I was making my music. It's evolved to this point where I think people look at it as one big traveling party.

Climate change is real. In order to alter this reality, we need all hands on deck.

It always stings a little bit when somebody doesn't like what you put out there, or at least it does for me. I don't take it too much to heart, and it doesn't change anything.

Be intentional about your life and what you want to accomplish, but understand there's no choice you make that you can't change.

Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It is a teacher, a clarifier, and your friend, especially if you are trying to make change.

Whatever aspect of life you apply it to, making change takes courage.

Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.

change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.

We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.