99 Change Quotes

1.  All I want to do is change the world. W. Clement Stone
2. You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. Jim Rohn
3. If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. Vaclav Havel
4. Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages. Mahatma Gandhi
5. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years? Paul Ryan
6. Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus. Simon Mainwaring
7. Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up. Glenn Beck
8. As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Lea DeLaria
9. Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year. James Lovelock
10. Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. Anthony J. D'Angelo
11. 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
12. It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. Ambrose Bierce
13. Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country. Peter Schuyler
14. Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk. Jeff Goodell
15. I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. LL Cool J
16. Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. Jean Paul
17. The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius
18. Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that. Mike Ditka
19. There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. John Boyd Orr
20. Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change? Chris Christie
21. You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. Shimon Peres
22. If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. B. F. Skinner
23. Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change. Wynton Marsalis
24. 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
25. You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. Richard Bach
26. Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it. Beth Ditto
27. Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous? Ayelet Waldman
28. One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong. Dean Koontz
29. There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. Robert Louis Stevenson
30. Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track. Paul Ryan
31. Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus
32. If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him. Clint Eastwood
33. That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. Marcus Tullius Cicero
34. Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. John Updike
35. I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up. Maria Sharapova
36. Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them. James Cash Penney
37. To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. John Henry Newman
38. I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it. Brian Eno
39. This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty. Maxine Waters
40. I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid. Kelly Lynch
41. 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
42. 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
43. All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind. Marjory Stoneman Douglas
44. One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. Hugh Mackay
45. Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. Denis Waitley
46. If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination. Mark Burnett
47. The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. Oprah Winfrey
48. 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
49. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change. Alan Alda
50. I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous. Beth Ditto
51. 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
52. All is connected... no one thing can change by itself. Paul Hawken
53. 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
54. 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
55. Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood. Dee Dee Myers
56. We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. Harrison Ford
57. As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look. Marilyn Manson
58. No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution. Hamid Karzai
59. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
60. 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
61. People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet. Temple Grandin
62. 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
63. 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
64. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. James Russell Lowell
65. There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it. David Attenborough
66. Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got. Peter Drucker
67. 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
68. No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. John Ruskin
69. I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality. Marilyn vos Savant
70. What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later. Jonathan Sacks
71. No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. Robin Williams
72. Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results. Gordon Ramsay
73. If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that. Brett Favre
74. One new feature or fresh take can change everything. Neil Young
75. I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think. Britney Spears
76. I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things. Rashida Jones
77. Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen. Jeff Cooper
78. Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that. Ang Lee
79. We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. George A. Sheehan
80. 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
81. I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love. Michelle Obama
82. There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? Andrea Jung
83. Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves. Billy Graham
84. 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
85. Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. Nikos Kazantzakis
86. You do have to change things as warfare changes. Charles Schumer
87. Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. John Wooden
88. Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. Benjamin Disraeli
89. I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change. Danica McKellar
90. Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream. Debby Boone
91. Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can. Joy Page
92. I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think I don't need or want anything to change that. Jordin Sparks
93. Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you. Jon Bon Jovi
94. Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? Lord Byron
95. While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship. Jerry Saltz
96. I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit. John Cleese
97. Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change. Barbara Januszkiewicz
98. Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. Margaret Cho
99. If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. Mary Douglas