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Change Quotes


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


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


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


"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."


"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again."


"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."


"This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives."


"And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old."


"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."


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


"Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies."


"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."


"The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him."
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