Change Quotes

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
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
– Eleanor Clift
People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.
– Miranda Lambert
People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.
– Thomas Jane
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
– Albert Ellis
People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.
– Jeremy Renner
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
– William Hague
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
– Sharon Stone
People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
– Bobby Knight
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
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
– Keith Henson
People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
– Adele Brookman
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
– Temple Grandin
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
– David Wilkerson
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
Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.
– Margaret J. Wheatley
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
– Brigitte Bardot
Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.
– Billy Graham
One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil!
– Terry McAuliffe
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
One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.
– Peter Steele
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
One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.
– Julius Erving
One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.
– Nick Carter
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
– Don Marquis
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
One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.
– Marc Andreessen
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
– Neil Young
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
– Philip Wylie
On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
– Jesse Jackson
On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.
– Hillary Clinton
Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
– Hillary Clinton
Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
– Barack Obama
Obviously comedic styles do change.
– Larry David
Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.
– Ron Fournier
Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.
– Muqtada al Sadr
Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.
– Barack Obama
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
– Laurence Sterne
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
– Tom Clancy
Nothing endures but change.
– Heraclitus
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
– Kenneth L. Pike
No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.
– Kinky Friedman
No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.
– William Shatner
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
– Robin Williams
No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.
– Helena Bonham Carter
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
– Milan Kundera
No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
– Hamid Karzai
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
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
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
– Langston Hughes
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
– Martha Beck
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
– Harvey Fierstein
My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'
– Miranda Lambert
My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
– Muhammad Yunus
My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
– Mark Zuckerberg
Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
– Jonathan Sacks
Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
– Steve Martin
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
Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.
– Nick Clegg
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
Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.
– Will Smith
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.
– Jon Bon Jovi
Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. 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
Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.
– Eric McCormack
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
Maybe we all change over time.
– Elizabeth Edwards
Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.
– Jeff Goodell
Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
– Henry W. Kendall
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
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
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
– Abel Ferrara
Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
– James Hillman
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
– Edward de Bono
Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.
– Marilu Henner
Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
– Barack Obama
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
– Bill Watterson
Kids are a huge sacrifice they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.
– Katherine Heigl
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
It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
– Herman Cain
It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.
– Marc Jacobs
It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
– Brian Eno
It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.
– Jessica Simpson
It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
– Gary Busey
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.
– David Attenborough
It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.
– John H. Johnson
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
– Charles Kuralt
It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat.
– Avril Lavigne
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
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
– Gerry Adams
It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.
– Michelle Obama
It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.
– Helena Bonham Carter
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
– Martin Scorsese
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
– Luther Burbank
It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.
– Margaret Cho
It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.
– Rick Perry
It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.
– Simon Mainwaring
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
It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
– Frank B. Kellogg
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
– Charles Darwin