The Change Quotes

Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.

You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves

Life can change your directions, even when you ain't planned it. All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic.

What you believe is powerful. If you can change what you believe, you can change your life!

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

With my music, I create change...I am using my music as a weapon.

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.

I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.

Of course, if you have thought up to now that an actor relies merely on inspiration you will have to change your mind. Talent without work is nothing more than raw unfinished material.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

I can change your life, make it so new. Make you never want to go back to the old you.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

I expect to be great. I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to provoke change.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

There is nothing permanent except change.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it

Music can change the world.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.

One moment can change a day, One day can change a life and One life can change the world

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.

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.

Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult

I think jewelry can change an outfit more than anything else. Transformation, punch, individuality: One or all of the above are why you should wear jewelry.

People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.