Change Quotes

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
– Leonardo da Vinci
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
– Friedrich Schiller
Habits change into character.
– Ovid
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
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
– Jonathan Sacks
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
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
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
Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.
– Jeff Goodell
From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
– David Suzuki
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
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
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
For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.
– Isabel Allende
For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
– Quentin Crisp
Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
– Rush Limbaugh
Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
– Mario Batali
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
– Chuck Palahniuk
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.
– Russell Baker
Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.
– Gilda Radner
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
– David Letterman
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
– John Wooden
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
– Paul Ryan
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
– Mason Cooley
Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
– Paul Auster
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
– Rob Reiner
Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
– David Ogden Stiers
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
– Harriet Tubman
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
Every day I'm thinking about change.
– Miuccia Prada
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
Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
– Richard Wagner
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.
– James Buchan
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
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
Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.
– Simon Mainwaring
Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
– Ang Lee
Dynamism is a function of change.
– Hillary Clinton
Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.
– Debby Boone
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
– Charles Sanders Peirce
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
– Jack Welch
Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
– Tupac Shakur
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
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
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
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
– Barbara Januszkiewicz
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.
– Robert Mugabe
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
– Mason Cooley
Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.
– Steve Harvey
Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.
– Ron Fournier
Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.
– Ron Fournier
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
– Bill Gates
Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.
– Jeff Goodell
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
– Will Durant
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
– Ralph Abernathy
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
Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
– The Dalai Lama
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
– Norman Vincent Peale
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
– Norman Vincent Peale
Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
– Victor Hugo
Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
– Esther Dyson
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
Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.
– James Cash Penney
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
– Gary Oldman
Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.
– Denise McCluggage
Change is such hard work.
– Billy Crystal
Change is one of my favourite words.
– Carol Vorderman
Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
– Barbara Sher
Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
– Alvin Toffler
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.
– Rudy Giuliani
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
– Lenny Kravitz
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
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
– Michael Porter
Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.
– Chris Martin
Cats don't like change without their consent.
– Roger Caras
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
– Aristotle
But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
– Damien Hirst
Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals.
– Simon Mainwaring
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.
– Jesse Jackson
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
– Jeff Goodell
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
– Danica McKellar
Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
– Liam Neeson
Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.
– Sarah Zettel
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
– William J. Clinton
Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
– Namie Amuro
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
As you grow older, you change.
– Martin Scorsese
As with anything creative, change is inevitable.
– Enya
As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
– Al Gore
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
– Al Gore
As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
– William Hague
As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.
– Claude Chabrol
As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like, 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.
– Jordin Sparks
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.
– Carter G. Woodson
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