Change Quotes

‘If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.’ – Barack Obama

‘Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.’ – Maya Angelou

‘To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.’ – Winston Churchill

‘The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.’ – Alan Watts

‘There is nothing permanent except change.’ – Heraclitus

‘You must be the change you wish to see in the world.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.’ – Viktor E. Frankl

‘Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.’ – Reinhold Niebuhr

‘If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.’ – Lao Tzu

‘If there is no struggle, there is no progress.’ – Frederick Douglass

‘The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.’ – Nathaniel Branden

‘They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.’ – Andy Warhol

‘All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.’ – Ellen Glasgow

‘Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.’ – Elon Musk

‘You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.’ – Leo Tolstoy

‘Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.’ – Jon Bon Jovi

‘Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.’ – Confucius

‘For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.’ – Steve Jobs

‘We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.’ – Carl Jung

‘Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.’ – Denis Waitley

‘Things do not change; we change.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.’ – Will Smith

‘Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.’ – A. C. Benson

‘Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.’ – Arnold Bennett

‘Change in all things is sweet.’ – Aristotle

‘When you blame others, you give up your power to change.’ – Robert Anthony

‘There is nothing so stable as change.’ – Bob Dylan

‘It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.’ – Gilda Radner

‘My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.’ – Jack Layton

‘If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.’ – Gail Sheehy

‘Change before you have to.’ – Jack Welch

‘Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.’ – Bertolt Brecht

‘You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.’ – Timothy Leary

‘Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘The more things change, the more they are the same.’ – Alphonse Karr

‘One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.’ – Frank Zappa

‘All great change in America begins at the dinner table.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.’ – Sydney J. Harris

‘Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘What’s dangerous is not to evolve.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.’ – Charles Kettering

‘Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.’ – Frank Herbert

‘The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.’ – Harold Wilson

‘Change is inevitable. Change is constant.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.’ – William Glasser

‘Change brings opportunity.’ – Nido Qubein

‘It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.’ – Isaac Asimov

‘I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.’ – Georg C. Lichtenberg

‘In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.’ – Jimi Hendrix

‘Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.’ – Shunryu Suzuki

‘Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.’ – Nikos Kazantzakis

‘One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.’ – Anatole France

‘We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.’ – Edmund Burke

‘He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.’ – Keri Russell

‘If you want to make enemies, try to change something.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.’ – Temple Grandin

‘I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.’ – Gillian Anderson

‘Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.’ – Bruce Barton

‘Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.’ – Irene Peter

‘Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.’ – Hugh Prather

‘Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.’ – Flannery O’Connor

‘I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.’ – John Lennon

‘We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.’ – Harrison Ford

‘In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.’ – J. Paul Getty

‘Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.’ – Mason Cooley

‘What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.’ – Herodotus

‘Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.’ – Peter Marshall

‘All things must change to something new, to something strange.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘Not only is women’s work never done, the definition keeps changing.’ – Bill Copeland

‘A hero is someone right who doesn’t change.’ – George Foreman

‘Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.’ – John Locke

‘Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.’ – Armistead Maupin

‘There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t.’ – Josh Billings

‘I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.’ – Elon Musk

‘If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.’ – Mary Douglas

‘I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.’ – Anna Quindlen

‘I can’t really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don’t see why I should.’ – Sting

‘Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.’ – Adlai Stevenson I

‘Weep not that the world changes – did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.’ – William Cullen Bryant

‘It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

‘The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.’ – May Sarton

‘Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.’ – Victoria Woodhull

‘Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.’ – Francis Bacon

‘Things don’t have to change the world to be important.’ – Steve Jobs

‘Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.’ – Katherine Mansfield

‘For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent.’ – Tony Robbins

‘Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.’ – Margaret Mead

‘They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.’ – Confucius

‘The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.’ – Carl Rogers

‘Nothing endures but change.’ – Heraclitus

‘When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.’ – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

‘Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘As with anything creative, change is inevitable.’ – Enya

‘Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.’ – Barbara Sher

‘The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.’ – Lech Walesa

‘Change is tough, people don’t like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.’ – Christopher Bond

‘To change what you get, you must change who you are.’ – Vernon Howard

‘A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.’ – Denis Waitley

‘If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.’ – Carl Jung

‘One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

‘Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?’ – Lord Byron

‘I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.’ – Douglas Horton

‘The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.’ – Leo Tolstoy

‘We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.’ – Carl T. Rowan

‘I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast… We have to change.’ – Gianni Versace

‘In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘All things are only transitory.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.’ – Maxwell Maltz

‘When you are through changing, you are through.’ – Bruce Barton

‘We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.’ – R. D. Laing

‘All I want to do is change the world.’ – W. Clement Stone

‘When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change… you will change.’ – Robert Anthony

‘Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.’ – Katherine Mansfield

‘Ignorance is always afraid of change.’ – Jawaharlal Nehru

‘Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.’ – Esther Dyson

‘Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘Change alone is unchanging.’ – Heraclitus

‘True change takes place in the imagination.’ – Unknown

‘Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.’ – Phil Crosby

‘Anyone who thinks there’s safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stock market pages.’ – Irene Peter

‘A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.’ – Margaret Mead

‘Taste may change, but inclination never.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.’ – Owen Feltham

‘To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.’ – William James

‘I’m a catalyst for change. You can’t be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.’ – Alvin Toffler

‘He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.’ – Francis Bacon

‘Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.’ – Alice Meynell

‘If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that’s got to be good, hasn’t it?’ – Ian Botham

‘Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.’ – Denise McCluggage

‘Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.’ – Harry Emerson Fosdick

‘The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything… or nothing.’ – Nancy Astor

‘I don’t know if you can change things, but it’s a drop in the ocean.’ – Julie Walters

‘A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.’ – James Levine

‘I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.’ – Camille Paglia

‘Serve the dinner backward, do anything – but for goodness sake, do something weird.’ – Elsa Maxwell

‘The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.’ – James G. Frazer

‘Change is such hard work.’ – Billy Crystal

‘If you feel like it’s difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.’ – Andrea Jung

‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.’ – Margaret Mead

‘Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.’ – Simone de Beauvoir

‘I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.’ – Jimmy Dean

‘People change and forget to tell each other.’ – Lillian Hellman

‘No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.’ – Robin Williams

‘You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.’ – Brian Tracy

‘The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.’ – Amelia Earhart

‘Change your thoughts and you change your world.’ – Norman Vincent Peale

‘My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn’t change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change – we can be miserable or we can be happy. It’s what you make of your life.’ – Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

‘Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘Music can change the world because it can change people.’ – Bono

‘Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.’ – Joel A. Barker

‘Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.’ – Paul Auster

‘Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.’ – Alicia Witt

‘Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz

‘Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.’ – Stephen Covey

‘We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.’ – Bill Gates

‘To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.’ – John Henry Newman

‘What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.’ – Abraham Maslow

‘My moms always told me, ‘How long you gonna play the victim?’ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.’ – Dolores Huerta

‘Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.’ – Barbara Mikulski

‘Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.’ – Thomas Hardy

‘I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.’ – Anne Frank

‘Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.’ – Will Hurd

‘The times change, and if you don’t change with them, you get left behind.’ – Bradley Walsh

‘The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.’ – Bill Nye

‘Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright

‘Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.’ – Carol Burnett

‘Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can’t put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You’ll never learn.’ – Jason Reynolds

‘I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.’ – Frank Ocean

‘I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.’ – Plutarch

‘We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.’ – Charles R. Swindoll

‘Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.’ – Max Carver

‘Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.’ – Walt Disney

‘Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.’ – Cary Kennedy

‘Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

‘If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.’ – Mao Zedong

‘Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.’ – William Pollard

‘Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.’ – George Gurdjieff

‘Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds – but we still have the power to change our own.’ – Ally Condie

‘Change is the end result of all true learning.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.’ – Jackie Chan

‘Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘There is no death, only a change of worlds.’ – Chief Seattle

‘You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.’ – Thomas Sankara

‘We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.’ – Peter Drucker

‘The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.’ – Carl Rogers

‘Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities – to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.’ – Klaus Schwab

‘The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.’ – Alan Cohen

‘I’m a max player. Don’t get mad at me because I’m telling you what’s real. One plus one is two, all day long, and it’s never gonna change. And that’s factorial.’ – Stephon Marbury

‘In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.’ – Ernst Fischer

‘Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy

‘Change always seems impossible until it’s inevitable.’ – Sarah McBride

‘It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.’ – W. Edwards Deming

‘Thankfully, dreams can change. If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.’ – Stephen Colbert

‘We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.’ – Randy Pausch

‘It only takes one person to mobilize a community and inspire change. Even if you don’t feel like you have it in you, it’s in you. You have to believe in yourself. People will see your vision and passion and follow you.’ – Teyonah Parris

‘Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.’ – John Milton

‘You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.’ – Tim Cook

‘A change of environment is pretty refreshing.’ – Owen Farrell

‘You can’t change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.’ – Sebastian Vettel

‘Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are – rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call ‘global challenges,’ which require global solidarity.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about a sustainable development.’ – Angela Merkel

‘To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.’ – Henri Bergson

‘Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.’ – Ron Hall

‘Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.’ – Mary McLeod Bethune

‘Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.’ – Martha Beck

‘Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.’ – Audre Lorde

‘Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.’ – Tupac Shakur

‘Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.’ – Cristiano Ronaldo

‘As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.’ – Amy Poehler

‘A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.’ – Marcel Proust

‘There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.’ – David Attenborough

‘Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.’ – Jane Goodall

‘Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.’ – John Wooden

‘All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.’ – Casey Stengel

‘You can’t change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you’re thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.’ – Ernesto Bertarelli

‘Journalism isn’t about how smart you are. It’s not about where you’re from. It’s not about who you know or how clever your questions are. And thank God for that. It’s about your ability to embrace change and uncertainty. It’s about being fearless personally and professionally.’ – Mary Pilon

‘You can’t change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.’ – Bonnie Hammer

‘Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.’ – Alice Munro

‘When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.’ – Bernard Meltzer

‘Sports is the common denominator in the world that brings everyone together. If there’s any one place in the world where there is equality, it is probably sports. That was something that didn’t always exist. We’ve come a long way in sports. Why can’t society use sports as a way to bring people together and create change?’ – Stephen M. Ross

‘Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.’ – James L. Farmer, Jr.

‘Either you change with the times or you get rolled over.’ – B. J. Armstrong

‘Journalism is what maintains democracy. It’s the force for progressive social change.’ – Andrew Vachss

‘Winning a pageant or sometimes simply participating in a contest can change your life. Outer beauty is just a part of the judgement, but what’s important are your views and opinions that are shown to the world.’ – Lara Dutta

‘If you never change your mind, why have one? – Edward de Bono’ – Edward de Bono

‘Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.’ – Debby Boone

‘We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.’ – Katharine Hepburn

‘You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.’ – Tom Brokaw

‘You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.’ – Nolan Ryan

‘There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.’ – Andrew Young

‘When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment.’ – Vermin Supreme

‘I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.’ – Nicholas Sparks

‘I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?’ – Yogi Berra

‘The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.’ – Joe Biden

‘The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.’ – Mike Huckabee

‘No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.’ – David D. Burns

‘You change your life by changing your heart.’ – Max Lucado

‘The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will attain high office. By land and sea, he will be feared.’ – Nostradamus

‘Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘The ‘self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.’ – Maxwell Maltz

‘Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.’ – Will Durant

‘I wouldn’t change anything. I’ve made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I’ve learned.’ – Enrique Iglesias

‘The world is not a static place. People change, evolve.’ – Mahesh Bhatt

‘Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.’ – Harry S Truman

”Movement is life;’ and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.’ – Jules Verne

‘It’s always the small people who change things. It’s never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn’t have a clue the day before.’ – Luc Besson

‘Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.’ – Ann Cotton

‘The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.’ – Najib Razak

‘I am Jose Mourinho and I don’t change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.’ – Jose Mourinho

‘Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.’ – Jack Ma

‘It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.’ – Brian Eno

‘Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.’ – William H. McRaven

‘Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.’ – Gretchen Rubin

‘If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you’re weak or that you’re a failure because you can’t seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results.’ – Amy Morin

‘The price of championships will never change. It’s been set long before me. It will be the same long after me. That price is hard work, sweat, blood, tears, fatigue and exhaustion and doing so much more than what is required of you.’ – Tom Herman

‘A change of scenery can help everything.’ – Drew Pomeranz

‘Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘You change the world by being yourself.’ – Yoko Ono

‘People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.’ – Eminem

‘Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.’ – Ramana Maharshi

‘Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.’ – Lewis B. Smedes

‘Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.’ – Antonin Scalia

‘Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.’ – JR

‘You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.’ – Bad Bunny

‘The older I get, the more I’m conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn’t it?’ – Sandra Cisneros

‘I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.’ – William S. Burroughs

‘Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.’ – Max Frisch

‘All men can and will change. But there’s only one woman we’re going to change for.’ – Steve Harvey

‘As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new – and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.’ – Unknown

‘One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.’ – Ella Baker

‘You can change friends but not neighbours.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘The reality is that the only way change comes is when you lead by example.’ – Anne Wojcicki

‘Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.’ – Richard Hooker

‘No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.’ – Emma Goldman

‘There’s no sense in going to a tournament if you don’t believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.’ – Tiger Woods

‘People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.’ – Dick Gregory

‘It’s always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can’t change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.’ – Carli Lloyd

‘No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.’ – Bear Grylls

‘If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it’s never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely – by that time, you’re both dead.’ – Anne Bancroft

‘As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world – not just study it.’ – Henry Petroski

‘Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that’s when it’s progress.’ – Doug Baldwin

‘I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘The Titanic hit the iceberg not because they could not see it coming but because they could not change direction.’ – Dean Devlin

‘I’m a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That’s just me and what I do, and I’m not going to change it.’ – George Strait

‘Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.’ – Diego Luna

‘I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.’ – Woody Allen

‘A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you’re in and take advantage of it.’ – Nikki Giovanni

‘I want to be able to look back and say, ‘I’ve done everything I can, and I was successful.’ I don’t want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I’d like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.’ – Michael Phelps

‘How can people change their minds about us if they don’t know who we are?’ – Harvey Milk

‘Dr. Seuss said, ‘No one can be you-er than you,’ and Oscar Wilde said, ‘Be yourself because everyone else is taken.’ So I just try to continue to be who I am and don’t change that. And I’m a little chameleon, so I can fit in wherever I am.’ – Martellus Bennett

‘Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.’ – Erik Voorhees

‘For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.’ – Octavia Spencer

‘Due to climate change, wildfires are growing in size, frequency, and intensity, and wildfire seasons are becoming longer.’ – Mikie Sherrill

‘In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change – as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.’ – Zygmunt Bauman

‘Change takes courage.’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

‘You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.’ – Mike Murdock

‘One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.’ – Luis Palau

‘Trust me, you can’t change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It’s impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.’ – Afeni Shakur

‘We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.’ – Young Thug

‘The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.’ – John McAfee

‘I truly believe the intention of creating positive change is so important to the collective consciousness. When you have a group of people that have the intention and the capacity, talent, and intelligence to actualize those intentions, then you have something really powerful.’ – Jimmy Chin

‘You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.’ – Melania Trump

‘If you’re raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers.’ – Robert Downey, Jr.

‘To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.’ – Frances Arnold

‘Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.’ – Niels Bohr

‘We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.’ – Mikhail Gorbachev

‘No one person can change the world, but one and one and one add up.’ – Sylvie Guillem

‘We can’t change the past but we can learn from history and remember the important things – the sacrifices our loved ones made, and the price of our freedom today.’ – Vera Lynn

‘If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘Change is not an event, it’s a process.’ – Cheryl James

‘Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.’ – Chanda Kochhar

‘The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

‘Change means resistance, and resistance means transformation and igniting energies.’ – Yasmine Hamdan

‘I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘I don’t go by or change my attitude based on what people say. At the end of the day, they, too, are judging me from their perspective. I would rather be myself and let people accept me for what I am than be somebody who I am not, just because I want people’s approval.’ – Karan Patel

‘I used to doubt my ability and what I was capable of, and then I changed my mindset. It made me a better person, a better advocate, and opened doors for me to help instigate real change.’ – Dylan Alcott

‘A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.’ – Sheryl Sandberg

‘Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.’ – Michael Franti

‘With only one bag, you can change your outfit completely.’ – Sonia Rykiel

‘The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story. Digital comic books, of course, can be interactive in many different ways, allowing the reader to feel like a participant in the story.’ – Stan Lee

‘We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.’ – S. Truett Cathy

‘The power of social media is it forces necessary change.’ – Erik Qualman

‘If you don’t change with the times, the times are going to change you.’ – Marv Levy

‘Asking questions is the first way to begin change.’ – Kubra Sait

‘People can cry much easier than they can change.’ – James Baldwin

‘Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.’ – David Whyte

‘Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.’ – Gertrude Stein

‘The moment of change is the only poem.’ – Adrienne Rich

‘The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.’ – Fabrizio Moreira

‘As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.’ – Alain Dehaze

‘Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.’ – Alvin Toffler

‘Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.’ – Gerald Jampolsky

‘I want history to remember me… not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.’ – Shirley Chisholm

‘If you change nothing, nothing will change.’ – Rajkummar Rao

‘So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.’ – Christopher McCandless

‘Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.’ – Alexander Hamilton

‘Our only security is our ability to change.’ – John Lilly

‘I think an eyebrow can change the way you feel. It changes everything about your confidence.’ – Anastasia Soare

‘Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.’ – Mary Ritter Beard

‘In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.’ – B. F. Skinner

‘The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.’ – William James

‘Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.’ – Robert Frost

‘We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Climate change is moving faster than we are, but we don’t give up because we know that climate action is the only path.’ – Antonio Guterres

‘I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.’ – Erin Gruwell

‘If you’re not changing, you’re not growing; you’re not being present. Change is essential.’ – Maggie Rogers

‘Change is always happening. That’s one of the wonderful things about jazz music.’ – Maynard Ferguson

‘Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.’ – John Steinbeck

‘Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it’s a universal language. You don’t have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.’ – Paul Epworth

‘We have a duty to show up in the world with meaning and purpose and commitment to doing good. And to use any privilege that we have to make positive change and to disrupt oppressive systems.’ – Meena Harris

‘Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.’ – Gordon W. Allport

‘The blockchain is going to change everything more than the Internet has.’ – Brock Pierce

‘When we lose, we don’t have to change everything but correct things by working hard.’ – Neymar

‘If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.’ – Irwin Corey

‘The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.’ – Christian de Duve

‘Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life.’ – Mark Manson

‘Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you.’ – Bruce Wilkinson

‘We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.’ – Tony Robbins

‘We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.’ – Ursula K. Le Guin

‘I’m saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don’t and we want to change – I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.’ – Philip Zimbardo

‘Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.’ – Nell Scovell

‘It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to keep it.’ – Willy Brandt

‘You can’t change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.’ – Margot Lee Shetterly

‘Change is hard, but change is good.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.’ – Marilu Henner

‘We won’t be able to stop disasters from happening. On the contrary, climate change may increase the frequency and severity of floods, droughts and storms. But we are better equipped today to prepare for them and reduce their impact.’ – Sri Mulyani Indrawati

‘The good and bad things are what form us as people… change makes us grow.’ – Kate Winslet

‘People cannot change their tidying habits without first changing their way of thinking.’ – Marie Kondo

‘It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It’s not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I’m no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I’m great or good at it or anything, it’s just that I’ve done a bunch of them, so you’re not shocked.’ – Jonah Hill

‘Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.’ – Dalai Lama

‘Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God’s divine plan for your life. Don’t run from it.’ – Iman

‘I do believe that clean water is the most efficient way to change the world.’ – Chris Long

‘Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.’ – bell hooks

‘The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.’ – Bret Harte

‘I didn’t start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.’ – Anthony Edwards

‘I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring.’ – Tara Westover

‘I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.’ – Snoop Dogg

‘Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people’s lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.’ – Debbie Ford

‘The robots are coming, whether we like it or not, and will change our economy in dramatic ways.’ – Kristen Soltis Anderson

‘If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.’ – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

‘Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don’t need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision – a way to be more successful – they have to remain nimble enough to take it.’ – Eric Ries

‘Power does not change you, it unmasks you.’ – John Kennedy

‘A lot can change in the editing room.’ – Diane Lane

‘Some people change when they think they’re a star or something.’ – Paris Hilton

‘A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.’ – Horace

‘In a bid for change, we have to take off our coats, be prepared to lose our comfort and security, our jobs and positions of prestige, and our families… A struggle without casualties is no struggle.’ – Steven Biko

‘Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.’ – Bill Watterson

‘If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.’ – Kurt Lewin

‘Change is not indecision.’ – Chris Ofili

‘The only constant in the technology industry is change.’ – Marc Benioff

‘Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.’ – Ossie Davis

‘In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.’ – Cal Thomas

‘We need to make sure we’re all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘Yankees don’t understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.’ – Lewis Grizzard

‘Only idiots refuse to change their minds.’ – Brigitte Bardot

‘Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘As a daughter of a former NAACP chapter president, I know all too well how everyday people can change lives and create progress so many others consider ‘impossible.” – Lucy McBath

‘I’m like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same.’ – Rose Namajunas

‘Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.’ – Woody Guthrie

‘Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.’ – Bill Tilden

‘Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.’ – Ronaldo

‘Music is your way to change the frequencies of everything around you and move your own body, move your whole environment.’ – Kali Uchis

‘Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.’ – Joseph Parry

‘Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.’ – John F. Kerry

‘Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.’ – Doug Larson

‘One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.’ – Liya Kebede

‘A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that’s revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.’ – Fred Hampton

‘Epigenetics doesn’t change the genetic code, it changes how that’s read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won’t be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.’ – Bruce Lipton

‘Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.’ – Jenna Dewan

‘There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that’s borrowed from spoken Torah… ‘All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.’ I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.’ – Neri Oxman

‘People don’t want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it’s different.’ – Chadwick Boseman

‘Climate change isn’t something people get to choose to believe or not: it’s happening.’ – Matt Gaetz

‘I played with Prince in 2010… the America tour. The one with Misty Copeland dancing on top of the piano! But Prince played the piano on that song. But I played two dates with him on that tour. When we played the gig, every couple of songs, Prince would change his clothes.’ – Jon Batiste

‘I thought that the older I got, that partying would change – and it has – in the way that now I know how to party.’ – Brendon Urie

‘Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.’ – Mark Skousen

‘That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.’ – Lydia M. Child

‘If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.’ – Phil Crosby

‘Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.’ – Saul Alinsky

‘My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn’t describe myself as that. Because I don’t have to. Because I’m not a political party. Most people are a little bit of each, and we change our mind on various issues.’ – Daniel Radcliffe

‘If you’re someone in the business of verifying transactions on a proprietary network, the invention of Bitcoin cannot be safely ignored. It will change or disrupt the providers of most proprietary payment networks in the coming years.’ – Brian Armstrong

‘As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. ‘Pears like I didn’t do nothing but pray for ole master. ‘Oh, Lord, convert ole master;’ ‘Oh, dear Lord, change dat man’s heart, and make him a Christian.” – Harriet Tubman

‘Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?’ – Frank Luntz

‘The key to change… is to let go of fear.’ – Rosanne Cash

‘It’s always good to change and keep things fresh, whether it’s a hairstyle or wardrobe.’ – Sheamus

‘Anybody who doesn’t see the impact of climate change is really, I would say, myopic. They don’t see the reality. It’s so evident that we are destroying Mother Earth. This is not the problem of one country or a few countries: it is the problem of mankind. We need to work together to stop this. Otherwise, our future generations will simply disappear.’ – Juan Manuel Santos

‘Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.’ – Charles Eames

‘Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn’t change a thing!’ – Karen Civil

‘You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.’ – Varun Grover

‘Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.’ – John Podhoretz

‘For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.’ – Michelle Obama

‘The truth doesn’t change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That’s the thing about the truth. That’s the thing about real. It doesn’t change and it doesn’t have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it’s still real. It’s still the truth.’ – DMX

‘A change of season calls for a change of scent that is both energizing and refreshing.’ – Hannah Bronfman

‘At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘I change my style maybe every month. I’m, like, punk one month, ghetto fab the next, classy the next. I’m just young and finding out who I am.’ – Kylie Jenner

‘I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.’ – Roy Orbison

‘When we started, the business name was ‘Fashion 21.’ And change it to ‘Forever 21′ later.’ – Do Won Chang

‘The power of positive thinking can change your life.’ – Devin McCourty

‘He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.’ – Daniel De Leon

‘Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?’ – Barbra Streisand

‘You’ve got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.’ – Gavin Newsom

‘In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.’ – Jacque Fresco

‘The blockchain is the financial challenge of our time. It is going to change the way that our financial world operates.’ – Blythe Masters

‘We have to fight climate change like we actually want to win.’ – Jagmeet Singh

‘Everything can change in a heartbeat.’ – Travis Pastrana

‘You can’t stay the same. If you’re a musician and a singer, you have to change, that’s the way it works.’ – Van Morrison

‘The direct risks from climate change are obvious: as changing weather patterns cause extremes of flood and drought, hurricanes and typhoons. These damage the physical infrastructure of buildings and bridges roads and railways. They are violent and disruptive.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don’t want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.’ – Rory McIlroy

‘A zebra does not change its spots.’ – Al Gore

‘It is not strange… to mistake change for progress.’ – Millard Fillmore

‘Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.’ – Tom Peters

‘Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn’t allowed in a photo because I wasn’t wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.’ – Billie Jean King

‘You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.’ – Jawaharlal Nehru

‘An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes – and as with memes in their original version.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘It’s unbelievable. I changed the way Barcelona played. Now, Spain have had to change.’ – Johan Cruyff

‘You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.’ – Richard Bach

‘In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘I was raised as an Orthodox Jew in a major neighborhood specializing in that, in Brooklyn. And somewhere when I was about 14, something changed. And that change probably involved updating every molecule in my body, in that I sort of realized: this is nonsense, there’s no God, there’s no free will, there is no purpose.’ – Robert Sapolsky

‘Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.’ – David Bowie

‘All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘People will resist change when it’s done to them, not with them.’ – Ken Blanchard

‘You can overthink things, but I think you come to terms with it quickly because you can’t change it, whether you like it or not.’ – Jude Bellingham

‘Peace, unity, love, and nonviolence should be our rallying cry and the catalyst for change in our nation.’ – Tony Evans

‘We live in a world defined by the rapid pace of technological change.’ – Jerome Powell

‘It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction, to start a ripple of change.’ – Donna Brazile

‘The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.’ – M. Scott Peck

‘Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.’ – Lois Lowry

‘Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.’ – Laura Marano

‘So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.’ – Robin Quivers

‘As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.’ – William O. Douglas

‘I’m a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.’ – Natalie Portman

‘Every single player matters. Every single player can change the course of the game.’ – Bill Belichick

‘The Internet’s a driving force in the change from mass media to ‘my media,’ in which consumers will be their own programmers.’ – Jerry Yang

‘Change and growth is so painful. But it’s so necessary for us to evolve.’ – Sarah McLachlan

‘When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.’ – Cameron Sinclair

‘Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.’ – Jose Rizal

‘Change is always good. It brings you to a new place.’ – Lee Ranaldo

‘My passion for this game is never going to change. You’re always going to see me have that fieriness to me. That’s just the only way I know how to play this game and I love it for that because I get to release that energy and that passion, that anger that I have.’ – Travis Kelce

‘Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.’ – E. Joseph Cossman

‘You can’t change somebody’s character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.’ – Paul Manafort

‘Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.’ – Margaret Cho

‘If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.’ – Jacques Yves Cousteau

‘Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can’t stop it. You can’t fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can’t go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.’ – Marla Gibbs

‘If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.’ – Walter Payton

‘Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.’ – Bill Drayton

‘Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.’ – Etel Adnan

‘The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.’ – Kenneth Kaunda

‘Try to realize it’s all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you’re only very small and life flows on within you and without you.’ – George Harrison

‘Climate change is not just about carbon dioxide levels and melting polar ice caps. It is about our public health and protecting our Earth for future generations.’ – Mike Quigley

‘Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it’s about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.’ – Li Keqiang

‘It’s a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don’t like is predictable.’ – Naomi Campbell

‘All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world.’ – Steven Curtis Chapman

‘Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.’ – Kin Hubbard

‘Our bodies are always going to change, and we might not always love that, but it really has nothing to do with true beauty. True beauty comes from within.’ – Nia Jax

‘My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.’ – Jurgen Klopp

‘Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it’s too late.’ – John Delaney

‘Boxing is serious. It’s not a game. Just one punch – change life.’ – Gennady Golovkin

‘You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.’ – Allen Klein

‘I’m living with every step. I can’t live with regret. The past is the past. I’m not worried about it. I can’t change it. I can’t fix it. It is what it is. I’m just living.’ – Ryan Sheckler

‘All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.’ – Kurt Vonnegut

‘People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.’ – Peter Thiel

‘One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won’t jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.’ – Jeff Goodell

‘Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people’s minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.’ – Barbara Deming

‘There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don’t feel grateful to them for their work.’ – Jasmine Guy

‘Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.’ – Louie Schwartzberg

‘You don’t have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life’s about change.’ – John Cleese

‘I remember being 18 and being fed up with everything – fed up with society, fed up with the political system, fed up with myself – and then you kind of go, ‘Actually, this voting thing is amazing,’ because you have a chance to change it, right?’ – Cillian Murphy

‘Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.’ – Greg Anderson

‘Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I’m really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.’ – Sean Lennon

‘It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.’ – Karl Marx

‘Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.’ – Plato

‘Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.’ – Joseph Addison

‘If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?’ – Gloria Steinem

‘Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.’ – Dan Quayle

‘Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.’ – Annie Lennox

‘My dad was a monster and I realized if the gospel could change that dude, the gospel can change anybody.’ – Bart Millard

‘People are generally forced to change. We don’t want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn’t working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.’ – Ira Glass

‘Everybody is going to have an opinion on you; not everyone is going to like you. You can’t live your life based on other people’s opinions of you or let that change what you do or how you feel about yourself, because then you’re not living.’ – Rumer Willis

‘If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.’ – Hilary Mantel

‘Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.’ – Mamata Banerjee

‘Social change isn’t something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.’ – Nancy Lublin

‘People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.’ – Bobby Knight

‘There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.’ – Denis Diderot

‘Formal education must change. It needs to be brought into closer alignment with the world as it actually is, into closer harmony with the way human beings actually learn and thrive.’ – Sal Khan

‘The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.’ – R. D. Laing

‘The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it’s an example of freedom from religion.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.’ – Lady Gaga

‘Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.’ – George Ayittey

‘You can’t dictate to a country or a religion about how they handle things, but having said that, WWE is at the forefront of a women’s evolution in the world, and what you can’t do is effect change anywhere by staying away from it.’ – Triple H

‘Don’t ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it’s the only thing that ever has.’ – Aaron Sorkin

‘At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the world. I’m very generous, and I really want people to see that I am – that’s really it.’ – Millie Bobby Brown

‘Every successful social movement in this country’s history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.’ – Alicia Garza

‘This past year has been something else… it’s opened my eyes to many things and many people. It’s had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we’ve all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We’ve over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.’ – Kyle Schmid

‘To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, ‘Things don’t look like that!” – David Hockney

‘We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance… And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.’ – Joan D. Vinge

‘A small behavioral change can also lead to embracing a wider checklist of healthier choices.’ – Chuck Norris

‘I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night’s rest was best in any event.’ – Benjamin Harrison

‘Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change.’ – Paul Hawken

‘Some things never change – there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets.’ – Jamie Dimon

‘Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.’ – Carre Otis

‘New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach

‘Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.’ – Sai Baba

‘There are always people who are into the old way of doing things. I don’t think it’s a bad thing necessarily, but things change – nothing stays the same. If you can stay true to yourself, you’re always going to be legendary.’ – Lil Uzi Vert

‘It hasn’t always been easy. There’s a lot of hard moments. Sometimes you learn from the end of the bench. Sometimes you learn from injuries. Sometimes you learn the most through the hard things. If you can keep a good attitude and keep on working, eventually situations change, and you can put those things to use.’ – Kyle Korver

‘The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.’ – Octavio Paz

‘I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn’t have had otherwise.’ – Jacqueline Woodson

‘Don’t time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don’t bookmark pages you’ve already read.’ – James Altucher

‘The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it’s increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘We’re on some path that’s set since we’re born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don’t believe in my fate.’ – RM

‘Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.’ – James E. Faust

‘Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘I need good friends who can say, ‘I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.” – Blake Lively

‘The hardest thing in life to do is to change.’ – Mickey Rourke

‘We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.’ – John Trudell

‘If we don’t change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we’ll be extinct by mid-century. I don’t say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.’ – Patch Adams

‘We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.’ – Alice Walker

‘Change is not always bad. Change can be good.’ – Dries van Noten

‘Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn’t have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.’ – Tom Clancy

‘I don’t believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it’s really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.’ – Olivia Thirlby

‘People change their partners like they are changing clothes. It’s very common now.’ – Sooraj Pancholi

‘We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that’s wrong and you’ve got to do something about it, especially if you’re in a position of power, it won’t change.’ – David Oyelowo

‘We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms.’ – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

‘We teach people that they upset themselves. We can’t change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.’ – Albert Ellis

‘I don’t think my personality will change. No matter how much time passes or how old I get, I’d like to be considered a playful person to everyone.’ – Kim Tae-hyung

‘I wouldn’t change a thing about what I’ve done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.’ – Minnie Driver

‘Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what’s in place before the violence occurs.’ – John Edgar Wideman

‘I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.’ – Zendaya

‘Some people will never change.’ – Penelope Wilton

‘There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what’s after it. And then you start hoping there is a God.’ – Peter Steele

‘People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don’t go any further than that.’ – Pep Guardiola

‘I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It’s sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I’ve made the decision: I’m going to write in my own handwriting.’ – Wes Anderson

‘On climate change, we often don’t fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.’ – Kofi Annan

‘People don’t change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.’ – Sharon Stone

‘I’m a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn’t change things.’ – Ricky Gervais

‘War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.’ – Salvatore Quasimodo

‘Change comes from reflection.’ – Genesis P-Orridge

‘I’m a proud New Zealander, and I represent Paralympics New Zealand. I love what I do, and I do it because I love it. The passion is unbelievable in every race I do. I have the ambition to change things outside the pool, too.’ – Sophie Pascoe

‘People don’t realize what’s really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren’t being held accountable for. And that’s something that needs to change. That’s something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.’ – Colin Kaepernick

‘I don’t think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have to feel good about who you are and that you could do something to change things.’ – Faith Ringgold

‘People can change, learn, and grow, and it’s better to face your demons instead of perpetually running away from them.’ – Jessica Rothe

‘Even in our moment of greatest darkness, there is light. And there is hope. And there is hope not only for our own lives, but we should be hopeful about our ability to change the world.’ – Ritchie Torres

‘Think of it this way: If you got a flat tire, what would you do? Change the tire? Or get out of the car and slash the other three tires? No! Get back on the road. Don’t dwell on it; don’t beat yourself up. That gets you nowhere.’ – Jillian Michaels

‘I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.’ – Waylon Jennings

‘There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.’ – Henry George

‘The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.’ – Aleister Crowley

‘By the time we get to the 2040s, we’ll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that’s singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.’ – Ray Kurzweil

‘Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.’ – George Boole

‘People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can’t change their minds.’ – Hilary Duff

‘Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.’ – An Wang

‘Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.’ – Ice T

‘Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.’ – Dan Lipinski

‘Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.’ – Quintilian

‘If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.’ – Charles Revson

‘Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.’ – Victor Pinchuk

‘If you don’t like Scottish weather, wait 30 minutes, and it is likely to change.’ – Raymond Bonner

‘The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.’ – John P. Kotter

‘People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn’t want to happen has happened.’ – Meg Ryan

‘You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you have a basic outfit on – a black sweater and skirt or a simple black dress – you can go from the office to a cocktail party at night just by changing your jewellery. It helps if you change your shoes as well.’ – Iris Apfel

‘I think electricity will create a new world. I feel like the world will change a lot with electricity, and I wonder how it will change, it’s scary, and it’s going to be fun. I think there are so many things to think about when it comes to electric cars.’ – J-Hope

‘When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘Everyone wants to be happy – people find happiness in different ways. While you want to pursue your career 100 percent, I think it is very hard to give 100 percent in something else. It’s important to find this balance, and priorities change throughout life.’ – Ana Ivanovic

‘I’m very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There’s nothing I want to change. I’m pretty happy with what I’ve got.’ – Avril Lavigne

‘What I think is beautiful about this younger generation is that we have more grace about finding your identity and how these things change and loving that part of yourself.’ – Renee Rapp

‘I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race. The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly. We can’t force them to think that way.’ – Rosa Parks

‘My presence is to instigate and incite the people for any change they want, and for not having a change that they don’t wish to do.’ – Muammar al-Gaddafi

‘It’s easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don’t change, your field changes around you.’ – Walter Gilbert

‘I’m not going to change; I’m going to keep grinding. I’m going to do all I can to win.’ – Ezekiel Elliott

‘Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.’ – Alfred Hitchcock

‘The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything’s sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.’ – Idris Elba

‘We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.’ – Luke Richardson

‘I wouldn’t change myself for anybody. I am who I am; people accept me, or they don’t. I have my strengths and my weaknesses, which I can try to improve upon, of course. I’m still not the finished product.’ – Granit Xhaka

‘Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.’ – Anand Mahindra

‘You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.’ – Samantha Power

‘There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment – and you start to decline.’ – Andy Grove

‘I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle – the more you use it, the stronger it gets.’ – Rodman Philbrick

‘In life’s journey, we all meet strange people and undergo many experiences that touch us and sometimes even change us.’ – Sudha Murty

‘A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.’ – Earl Nightingale

‘I like characters who don’t change, who don’t learn from their mistakes.’ – David Fincher

‘The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.’ – Matt McGorry

‘Everything changes but change.’ – Israel Zangwill

‘I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘We’ve got to keep our eye on what’s happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.’ – Kamala Harris

‘I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone’s imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. ‘Back to the Future’ fulfills all of those daydreams. It’s the perfect movie.’ – Sasha Grey

‘There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.’ – Jane Hamilton

‘With any huge change, you need to expect and accept that people will have their own opinions and feel the need to express them.’ – Gigi Gorgeous

‘People change all the time.’ – Tony Shalhoub

‘I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.’ – John Muir

‘People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.’ – Ben Askren

‘I’m not about change for the sake of change, but we should always be evaluating any initiative we’re working on to see if we can do it better.’ – Kim Reynolds

‘I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person’s day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.’ – Eddie Vedder

‘Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yourself.’ – Wendy Whelan

‘This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.’ – Charles Baudelaire

‘You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.’ – Kumail Nanjiani

‘Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth – on the quality and the character of it – and where it ought to go. We don’t have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland.’ – James Howard Kunstler

‘Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘No one likes change but babies in diapers.’ – Barbara Johnson

‘I would say that a wasted vote is voting for anybody you don’t believe in. If you believe in the third party, that’s the guy you need to voice for. That’s how you change things.’ – Gary Johnson

‘We think the whole world’s going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.’ – Michael K. Powell

‘The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That’s the question to be worried about.’ – Ray Dalio

‘The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its determined striving, and its reflective conclusion. Journeys change travellers just as a good travel book can change readers.’ – Rory MacLean

‘When I started coming to the U.S., they were offering me only the typical stereotypical roles: the druggard, the criminal, the gang member, or in the best-case scenario, the gardener or the cook. I was fed up with all these roles that were always the same. And I promised I would try to change the image of Latinos in Hollywood.’ – Eugenio Derbez

‘I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘We are legislators, not public works contractors. People look up to us to make serious laws that could change the lives of a great number of people or could change the way society is run or managed.’ – Miriam Defensor-Santiago

‘You can’t build an adaptable organization without adaptable people – and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.’ – Gary Hamel

‘Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.’ – Marge Piercy

‘I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn’t get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn’t make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!’ – Amanda Righetti

‘History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.’ – Andy Dunn

‘I’ve never stopped being Argentine, and I’ve never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I’ve been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change. Barcelona is my home because both the club and the people here have given me everything, but I won’t stop being Argentine.’ – Lionel Messi

‘The government may change faces from time to time, but it’s not like we fight wars for democracy – we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.’ – Woody Harrelson

‘Can dancing change your life? Yes. It’s changed mine. What I’ve learned is, it’s not about how good you are technically. It’s about your soul coming through. It’s about having fun.’ – Lisa Rinna

‘The Environmental Protection Agency’s first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants will create clean- energy jobs, improve public health, bring greater reliability to our electric power grid, bolster our national security, demonstrate the United States’ resolve to combat climate change and maybe even reduce our utility bills.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘Ultimately, when you have to deal with a whole country, priorities change.’ – Toby Regbo

‘Coy Wire played in the NFL for 9 years and is now a motivational speaker and has a book out called ‘Change Your Mind.’ He is an amazing person with such positive energy! When Kroy and I first met and started dating, there weren’t a whole lot of people that supported us, but Coy always did.’ – Kim Zolciak-Biermann

‘Governments do not care about your Facebook-assembled opinion. Incompetent politicians don’t read your tweets; there are reasons for them being out of touch. Change does not come about for ‘likes’ on a page, though the ideas for it may start there.’ – Hozier

‘The last couple of years I’ve been on an empty tank. And that’s gotta change.’ – Kenny Chesney

‘Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.’ – David Suzuki

‘I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.’ – Bobby Seale

‘I wouldn’t change anything. I think that it’s important to let things happen, and stay ‘happened’. I think that’s all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I’m just glad that it happened.’ – Mike Peters

‘Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.’ – Tory Burch

‘Change has to come. It’s not always what you’d like. It’s what other people like.’ – Ruskin Bond

‘This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.’ – Richard Rohr

‘One new feature or fresh take can change everything.’ – Neil Young

‘You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.’ – Jim Rohn

‘My own belief is that rather than getting involved in trying to change the reality of social-political things, creators can be involved in and express in different ways and be meaningful in different ways, so for me, it’s important to leave messages to people of the future and to be engaged with the people now.’ – Takashi Murakami

‘I don’t mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you’ve got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.’ – Corey Taylor

‘We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.’ – Sonia Johnson

‘With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.’ – Miguel Nicolelis

‘But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.’ – Ron D. Burton

‘Small change, small wonders – these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.’ – Barbara Kingsolver

‘Speech is the small change of silence.’ – George Meredith

‘Honestly, I think people change after meeting someone you love.’ – Taeyang

‘Accidents, try to change them – it’s impossible. The accidental reveals man.’ – J. B. Priestley

‘Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.’ – Elvis Presley

‘When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change.’ – John Lewis

‘When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we’d have the resistance problem we face today. We didn’t give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.’ – Bonnie Bassler

‘My life is what it is, and I can’t change it. I can change the future, but I can’t do anything about the past.’ – Alex Trebek

‘Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence – in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement – wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.’ – Eliezer Yudkowsky

‘That’s something we real big on – just being real, authentic, being yourself, not letting this lifestyle change you.’ – YG

‘I’m very interested in how people change.’ – Nathan Englander

‘Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.’ – Margaret J. Wheatley

‘I haven’t got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.’ – David Sedaris

‘Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.’ – Regina Brett

‘All of the great social justice advances that we ever had in this country have come not from people with big titles and not from people at the top, but just from everyday people getting together saying ‘Enough is enough. I’m going to change this, and I’m going to get involved, and I am going to be engaged.” – Nina Turner

‘I think the deepest level of our freedom is being able to change our identity.’ – Olga Tokarczuk

‘My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we’d go to.’ – Hannah Simone

‘The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.’ – Doris Lessing

‘I don’t have perfect teeth, I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.’ – Emma Watson

‘Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.’ – Shiv Khera

‘Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God’s image.’ – William Ames

‘The world will always need revolution. That doesn’t mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.’ – Jose Mujica

‘Don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.’ – Leroy Hood

‘You must change in order to survive.’ – Pearl Bailey

‘Your problems never cease. They just change.’ – Phil Jackson

‘I have a unique history. There’s no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don’t like it, you have to decide to change it.’ – Eve Plumb

‘For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.’ – Quentin Crisp

‘The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we’re at the zero lower bound is an aggressive change in policy that makes people wake up, say ‘this is a new day’ and change their expectations.’ – Christina Romer

‘The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.’ – Michael Porter

‘I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I’ve got to be involved. We need passion – that’s how things change.’ – Eliza Doolittle

‘If I had to do it all over again, I’d not change a thing – unless I could be a little meaner still.’ – Ted Lindsay

‘There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.’ – Albert Camus

‘I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry.’ – John Legend

‘You really can change the world if you care enough.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can’t change their DNA.’ – Herb Kelleher

‘Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Change of weather is the discourse of fools.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn’t just being book-smart or having a college degree; it’s trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.’ – Tabatha Coffey

‘It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.’ – Barack Obama

‘There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and ’60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.’ – Bob Newhart

‘Culture change means we will do things differently.’ – Satya Nadella

‘Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.’ – Lewis Gordon Pugh

‘Don’t try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, ‘You loved me when you met me, so let’s keep going!” – Willie Nelson

‘You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.’ – Al Franken

‘The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘I’m really living my dream so if I were to change anything up, I probably wouldn’t be where I am.’ – Lil Durk

‘Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success ‘permanently’ is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.’ – T. Harv Eker

‘There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.’ – Ferdinand Marcos

‘Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.’ – Shiv Nadar

‘Cats don’t like change without their consent.’ – Roger Caras

‘Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.’ – Theodor Reik

‘The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.’ – Daniel Patrick Moynihan

‘Failure doesn’t exist. It’s only a change of direction.’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky

‘I know my soul is beautiful; I know I’m a good person. And that will never change for me.’ – Khloe Kardashian

‘Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.’ – Natalie Imbruglia

‘We can change the world if we change ourselves. We just need to get hold of the old patterns of thinking and dealing with things and start listening to our inner voices and trusting our own superpowers.’ – Nina Hagen

‘How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.’ – Christopher Buckley

‘Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.’ – Malcolm Fraser

‘Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.’ – Leon Battista Alberti

‘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.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.’ – Ivor Novello

‘Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.’ – Doug E. Fresh

‘Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else – they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change.’ – Charlie Munger

‘Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change.’ – Ramsey Clark

‘What’s happening in crypto – and certainly what’s happening at Ripple – we have an opportunity to fundamentally change the way global commerce is managed from a payments point of view.’ – Brad Garlinghouse

‘Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.’ – Gail Bradbrook

‘You don’t change country music; it changes you.’ – Ashley McBryde

‘I think the thing about keeping your character fresh is, when you change as an individual, you have to flow with it.’ – Bray Wyatt

‘You’re going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You’ll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.’ – Philip Johnson

‘If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, stand in his face and get it started. Then go around, brigade by brigade, making it make sense.’ – Eric Shinseki

‘As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.’ – Jonas Gahr Store

‘A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.’ – Jenny Craig

‘I benefit from a change of scenery; it’s always inspiring.’ – Kurt Vile

”Vote Love’ means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what’s right for humanity.’ – Macklemore

‘The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.’ – Czeslaw Milosz

‘The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.’ – Colin Wilson

‘When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But if the main structure of a hypothesis isn’t established, and you want to change the paradigm – like it was the case in the 1960s – it’s better to work alone.’ – Peter Higgs

‘Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.’ – Amanda Gorman

‘A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.’ – David Viscott

‘Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.’ – Juan Felipe Herrera

‘I think in order to achieve real change, we as the black community need to come up with real asks and we have to determine, what do we actually want? We obviously want some social reform, on police brutality and things like that. We also need political changes. But it’s more than voting. What are we as black people asking of these politicians?’ – Maverick Carter

‘The reason I think I’m a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That’s what you do to pitch. That’s what pitchers have to do to win games.’ – Greg Maddux

‘Whenever you’re feeling moments of discomfort, that means true change is happening for you.’ – John David Washington

‘There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.’ – Washington Irving

‘All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.’ – Marjory Stoneman Douglas

‘I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.’ – DeRay Mckesson

‘The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.’ – Paul Polman

‘When you can’t change what’s bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn’t actually bother you.’ – Stephanie Coontz

‘Change before you’re forced to change.’ – Roger Goodell

‘Our bodies and our minds have their own timing that pay little attention to our cerebral desires. We can’t force or expect things to change as fast as we want, but when we put our efforts in the direction of our intention and drop everything else like snow falling, things unfold with ease.’ – Tara Stiles

‘Man can certainly flee from God… but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.’ – Karl Barth

‘Virtual reality and augmented reality will change the way we shop.’ – Michio Kaku

‘Decarbonization has already begun, and the appeal of a fossil-fuel-free world is growing – not only because it would limit climate change, but also because it would be more technologically advanced, democratic, resilient, healthy, and economically dynamic.’ – Johan Rockstrom

‘I’m trying to change the world.’ – Kid Cudi

‘We have to evolve, we have to change, and in order to do that, we have to initiate the change.’ – Edwin Catmull

”True Detective’ did change my career.’ – Alexandra Daddario

‘Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task – people change, they drift apart, they move on.’ – Alana Stewart

‘Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs.’ – David Ben-Gurion

‘It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.’ – Giordano Bruno

‘If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.’ – Eldridge Cleaver

‘If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.’ – Dallas Willard

‘The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It’s something they own, and it’s going to have to change.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.’ – Donatella Versace

‘I’m trying to change how women think about themselves.’ – Ashley Graham

‘The most useless are those who never change through the years.’ – James M. Barrie

‘It’s all about culture. If you can get the right people with the right mindset, the right core values and the ability to change on a dime, then you have the ability to invest and do what’s best for the health and long-term value proposition of the business.’ – David Steward

‘People who make videos bashing other people are like people who run into a public square and scream into a pillow. They’ll get attention, but they won’t change anything.’ – Scott Cawthon

‘And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey – it’s the story.’ – Graham Brown

‘Media is a double-edged sword and has the power to change hearts and minds through authentic storytelling as well as the power to paint a person, or an entire community, in a dim and misleading light.’ – Angelica Ross

‘If you have an opportunity to help others or incite change, it feels like a moral obligation to do so.’ – Elizabeth Chambers

‘Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.’ – Rudy Giuliani

‘Art is a hidden doorway that can change people’s emotions.’ – Akiane Kramarik

‘As you grow older, you change.’ – Martin Scorsese

‘The North Star has always been the same, which for us, is about making insanely great products that really change the world in some way – enrich people’s lives.’ – Tim Cook

‘I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that through my example, such as my role on ‘The West Wing,’ I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything… except hear.’ – Marlee Matlin

‘I am trying to change the world.’ – Jean-Luc Godard

‘Don’t fear change – embrace it.’ – Anthony J. D’Angelo

‘That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.’ – Charles Dickens

‘I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting change.’ – Marley Dias

‘We all want the same thing, love and acceptance. That’s pretty much it. And what I’ve learned is that unless I’m happy with my side of the nickel, it can change violently – quickly.’ – Aldous Harding

‘It’s time Pakistani women are able to stand up and hold their oppressors accountable, no matter how strong or influential they are. Don’t be scared. They are strong because we are weak – lets change that.’ – Momina Mustehsan

‘Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.’ – James Balog

‘I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.’ – Alvin Toffler

‘Spending time with negative people can be the fastest way to ruin a good mood. Their pessimistic outlooks and gloomy attitude can decrease our motivation and change the way we feel. But allowing a negative person to dictate your emotions gives them too much power in your life. Make a conscious effort to choose your attitude.’ – Amy Morin

‘Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.’ – Bill Gates

‘Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.’ – Bob Dylan

‘If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.’ – Lao Tzu

‘The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.’ – Peter Drucker

‘No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil and gas in a way that only makes climate change that much worse, fueling ever rising seas, widening deserts, withering drought, blistering heat, raging storms, wildfires, floods and other hallmarks of climate chaos.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.’ – Elon Musk

‘I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.’ – Jane Goodall

‘As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be – it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.’ – Saul Alinsky

‘It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.’ – David Attenborough

‘I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you’re being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they’re not exactly right.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.’ – Jack Ma

‘I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.’ – David Bowie

‘The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.’ – Dalai Lama

‘There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.’ – Cristiano Ronaldo

‘I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change – ask a thirteen-year-old.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.’ – Richard Rohr

‘If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.’ – Jim Rohn

‘What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.’ – Plutarch

‘There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.’ – Stephen Covey

‘We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.’ – Paul Auster

‘I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.’ – Taylor Swift

‘To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.’ – William James

‘Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.’ – Mark Manson

‘If you embrace that the things that you can do are limitless, you can put your ding in the universe. You can change the world.’ – Tim Cook

‘Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.’ – Joe Biden

‘The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.’ – Barack Obama

‘If people don’t vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it’s not going to change anything if you don’t vote.’ – Dolores Huerta

‘Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.’ – Steve Jobs

‘We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.’ – John Wooden

‘Money does not change people, people change.’ – Bad Bunny

‘Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.’ – Nikki Giovanni

‘God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.’ – Reinhold Niebuhr

‘Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?’ – Andy Warhol

‘If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.’ – William H. McRaven

‘The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.’ – Emma Goldman

‘Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.’ – Jack Welch

‘As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.’ – Bono

‘Acknowledging the unproductive thoughts and ineffective behavior that you’ve tried to ignore can be uncomfortable. But, stepping out of your comfort zone and choosing to proactively address bad habits will skyrocket your ability to create long-lasting change.’ – Amy Morin

‘The great growling engine of change – technology.’ – Alvin Toffler

‘Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.’ – Mason Cooley

‘What I learned in jail is that I can’t change. I can’t live a different lifestyle – this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.’ – Tupac Shakur

‘Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘I’m never too interested in what people say because, honestly, people’s opinions change like the weather. One minute you’re the best, the next you’re not ready.’ – Jude Bellingham

‘No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.’ – Frank Zappa

‘Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Fame changes a lot of things, but it can’t change a lightbulb.’ – Gilda Radner

‘In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.’ – Dean Devlin

‘Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.’ – Edward de Bono

‘When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.’ – Joel A. Barker

‘The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.’ – Tony Robbins

‘Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.’ – Robert Frost

‘Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.’ – Steven Biko

‘There has been evolution in many different areas – the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology… I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite.’ – Jose Mourinho

‘I realized that if I don’t like something, I can change it. If I don’t feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it’s not cool.’ – Zendaya

‘If it’s a good song and it fits me, that’s what I’m going to do, I’m not out there trying to change the world. I’m just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.’ – George Strait

‘There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate it.’ – Alicia Garza

‘Can art change the world? Maybe… we should change the question: Can art change people’s lives?’ – JR

‘I totally deplore the notion of an M.D. giving pills to patients – a medical doctor giving psychological or psychoactive change agents to another person.’ – Timothy Leary

‘Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.’ – Brian Tracy

‘Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.’ – Paul Hawken

‘I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.’ – Anne Frank

‘I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?” – Elon Musk

‘I couldn’t wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change.’ – Mikhail Gorbachev

‘I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.’ – Patch Adams

‘It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.’ – Jacque Fresco

‘The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.’ – Richard Bach

‘I wouldn’t mind, if Peter Parker had originally been black, a Latino, an Indian, or anything else, that he stay that way. But we originally made him white. I don’t see any reason to change that.’ – Stan Lee

‘If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Of course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘I’m a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word ‘grow.” – Zig Ziglar

‘Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.’ – David Suzuki

‘For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.’ – Nido Qubein

‘If all you needed to do is to figure out what company is better than others, everyone would make a lot of money. But that is not the case. They keep raising the prices to the point when the odds change.’ – Charlie Munger

‘We don’t hide our space program. We don’t keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That’s the way freedom is, and we wouldn’t change it for a minute.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.’ – Michelle Obama

‘You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.’ – Octavio Paz

‘I wanted to use sports for social change.’ – Billie Jean King

‘CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally… Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.’ – Al Gore

‘If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.’ – Michael Porter

‘Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.’ – Bruce Lipton

‘Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.’ – Marcel Proust

‘Even two of humanity’s most intimate possessions – a sense of self and a body image – are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain’s mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second’s notice.’ – Miguel Nicolelis

‘The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.’ – Maya Angelou

‘The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you’re wrong? And do you change? The most important thing to me as a CEO is that we keep the courage.’ – Tim Cook

‘The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.’ – Confucius

‘There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.’ – Lao Tzu

‘Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

”Aquarian Conspiracy’ is the term I have coined for the network of people working for social transformation based on personal inner change. Such a notion is not at all alien to the American milieu.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.’ – Bill Gates

‘I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.’ – Bob Dylan

‘In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?’ – Carl Rogers

‘First rule of change is controversy. You can’t get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.’ – Saul Alinsky

‘Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.’ – David Attenborough

‘We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.’ – Peter Drucker

‘I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.’ – Cristiano Ronaldo

‘I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‘Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?” – Jane Goodall

‘The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive – make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.’ – Jack Ma

‘Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘When people lay around whining to their therapists and ex-wives that they’re finally going to ‘change’ themselves, they are promising something imaginary and made up.’ – Mark Manson

‘You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.’ – Denis Waitley

‘I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.’ – Dalai Lama

‘I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue – it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.’ – Jim Rohn

‘I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.’ – David Bowie

‘We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.’ – Richard Rohr

‘Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‘outside the box,’ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.’ – Steve Jobs

‘What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.’ – Barack Obama

‘The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Just like it’s not healthy to think overly negative thoughts, exaggeratedly positive thoughts can be equally detrimental. If you overestimate how much of a positive impact a particular change will have on your life, you may end up feeling disappointed when reality doesn’t live up to your fantasy.’ – Amy Morin

‘Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.’ – Tony Robbins

‘Everything is subject to change except God Himself.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don’t believe in climate change – they think oil will last forever.’ – Elon Musk

‘A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.’ – Tim Cook