The Change Quotes

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE.

Be the change you are trying to create.

For above all, love is a sharing. Love is a power. Love is a change that takes place in our own heart. Sometimes it may change others, but always it changes us.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

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.

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

Change is a natural form of progression.

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination

Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

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

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.