Be A Change Quotes

Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them defensive.

Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

I didn't want to change the name on the towels.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.

There's no question that the number one contributor to climate change is livestock production. The quickest way to make an effect is to immediately start on a vegan diet.

As I change my thoughts, the world around me changes.

Never change your originality for the sake of others because no one can play your role better than you.

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement.

The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America.

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act.

People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

Reconciliation is the fastest way to change your life.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

Change your direction and you will change your destiny

Anybody can change, but they have to want to change.

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

Just stop it. Seriously. Whatever it is. Just stop it. If only for an hour, a day, a week. Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse of what the change would actually look like.

It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over.

How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change.

The fossil-fuel-based development model has not benefitted all people and those who have benefitted least are now suffering great harm in the face of climate change.

Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together to make a positive social change.

Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!

Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.

Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.

I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz'... it's an adventure.

Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

My goal has not ever been to change minds, my goal is to open minds.

If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.

What's the point? you can bring in 50 witnesses and it would not change what the tape clearly shows.

A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.