Change Quotes

Change quotes were meant to move us from inaction to action.

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected.

Isn't that what you really want in a jean? The ability to kick people in the face in them? I don't wanna have to go home and change into shorts.

When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.

Don't hold me to anything in the book. I'm a waffler. I like wafflers. They said John Kerry was a waffler, but I admired him for that - showed he could change his mind.

People don't like change when it comes to changing their own lifestyle habits.

People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

Identity is the continuity in a personality that survives through various vicissitudes, through change.

I don’t know the science behind climate change.

I have not seen proven proof that [climate change] is entirely man-made.

They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.

Well, I got married about two and a half years ago, and that's been a big change in my life.

I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.

What people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first.

I can change, I can grow.

. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.

I think Hollywood, as it's been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is "we'll make this content, and you guys buy it," but I don't think that's the future.

If you look at Hollywood today, compared to five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago or 30 years ago, the change from moment to moment has always been extraordinary. It never stops moving.

Suddenly, I'm in movies that people are excited about, and that is a nice change.

What we've got is the wholesale embrace of fracking domestically, internationally and for export. And this couldn't be further from what we really need to do to address climate change.

We all want somebody to come in and save the day and change our lives for the better.

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

Acting is one thing, but actually trying to change the world and the way people think to make people's lives better? That's the stuff I'm most proud of.

Focus on someone else’s problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice. From now on you’ll have to live in a world you didn’t make up. Horrible thought.

Often when something is going on behind the scenes and people fight for change, the fight will go on and on and on until they understand the mechanism that they're actually fighting against.

Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.

The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!

You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.

In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.

There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

To change the way you see things is already to change things themselves.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.

I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

I think one has to be aware that a change needs to be made to improve one's life and then there will always be alternatives and choices that can lead you away from a life of violence.