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Change Quotes


"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."


"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."


"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."



"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."


"When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit."


"Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield."



"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."


"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."


"The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today."


"The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing."


"There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming."


"Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret."


"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."


"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."



"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."


"I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner."


"The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being."


"I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet."


"What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?"


"What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching."


"We, too, must change as circumstances evolve."


"I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen."


"Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country."


"I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for."


"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change."


"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."


"True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it."



"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."


"Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different."


"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
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