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Change Quotes



"If a change in our lives require individually or socially painful sacrifices, it will be difficult to put into effect no matter how necessary that change might be. However, if we start down the road of transformation with simple, enjoyable, and tangible changes, we will soon be prepared to tackle larger issues."


"The prize seemed to change my professional life very little."


"Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs."


"The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries."


"At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people."


"They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped."


"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian."


"All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population."



"I want to reach over and grab her hand to comfort her. I want to say something reassuring to her. If this were yesterday, I'm sure I would have done that without a second thought. But it's not yesterday. It's today, and Charlie and I are complete strangers today."


"Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image."


"To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful."


"What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile."


"Take down the walls."


"Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time."


"Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change."


"One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding."


"I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally."


"Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics."


"You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!..."


"Have you no idea of progress, of development?""I have seen them both in an egg," said Caspian. "We call it 'Going Bad' in Narnia."


"If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version."


"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."


"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."


"If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country."


"Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change."


"Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that."


"It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day."


"Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change."
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