Change Quotes

The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

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.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.

I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

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.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

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.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.