Change Quotes

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.

That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.

No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.

If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"

Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.

I wouldn't change a thing about my family.

Examine what you believe to be impossible, and then change your beliefs.

I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.

I don't think we die. I think our bodies leave, but we can never die. That which is never born, can never die. And that which never changes, can never die.

One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about.

We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable

I don't like to channel surf. You guys like it, don't you. You guys like to change the channel. We like to change you.

One can never change the future by waiting 'till tomorrow.

Climate change is, over the longer term, our greatest national security challenge. We have to do all we can to slow it down and to prepare for and ameliorate its impact.

Forgiveness works the miracle of change.

The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."

No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

I am too old and stiff-necked to change my memories now.

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

And learn that the best thing is To change my loves while dancing And pay but a kiss for a kiss.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly.

I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.

Anytime you adopt a new system you change work flow and so people have to change, to some degree change the way in which they do things.

Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.

The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.

The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.

The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change.

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.

We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.

Some people say well we need a change. Hillary Clinton is been around a long, she sure has, and she's sure been worth every single year she's put into making people's lives better.

Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.

The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.

I'm Bill Clinton and I think you deserve a change. That's why I've offered a plan to get the economy moving again, starting with a middle-class tax cut.

Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.

People like change in general, but not in particular.

How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

Either we change our ways, especially the United States, or we will continue to lead the world in heart disease and cancer.