Top change Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of change quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Ronald Reagan
We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute.
- Ronald Reagan
Collection: Change
Image of Sharon Salzberg
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
- Sharon Salzberg
Collection: Change
Image of Marcus Aurelius
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
- Marcus Aurelius
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Image of Madonna Ciccone
I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
- Madonna Ciccone
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Image of William James
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
- William James
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Image of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Image of Jawaharlal Nehru
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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Image of Jim Rohn
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
- Jim Rohn
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Image of Steve Jobs
What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.
- Steve Jobs
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Image of William Morris
Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid.
- William Morris
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Image of Cristiano Ronaldo
I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
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Image of Barack Obama
What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Mickey Rourke
The hardest thing in life to do is to change.
- Mickey Rourke
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Image of Garry Winogrand
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
- Garry Winogrand
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Image of Ban Ki-moon
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
- Ban Ki-moon
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Image of Florence Griffith Joyner
I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.
- Florence Griffith Joyner
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Image of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Image of William S. Burroughs
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
- William S. Burroughs
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Image of Saul Alinsky
First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.
- Saul Alinsky
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Image of Tadashi Yanai
As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
- Tadashi Yanai
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Image of John C. Maxwell
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Change
Image of Elon Musk
I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever.
- Elon Musk
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Image of Dalai Lama
Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.
- Dalai Lama
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Image of Kip Thorne
We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes the uncertainties in that warping and how they change.
- Kip Thorne
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Image of Zig Ziglar
The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.
- Zig Ziglar
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Image of Cornel West
There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
- Cornel West
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Image of Maya Angelou
I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.
- Maya Angelou
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Image of Medgar Evers
If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.
- Medgar Evers
Collection: Change
Image of Andy Stanley
When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.
- Andy Stanley
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Image of Marsai Martin
You don't have to change who you are for anyone: if you are your regular, authentic, confident self, then you can push to do whatever you want.
- Marsai Martin
Collection: Change
Image of Tony Robbins
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
- Tony Robbins
Collection: Change
Image of Mario J. Molina
Climate change and ozone depletion are two global issues that are different but have many connections. In the ozone depletion case, we managed to work with decision makers effectively so that an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol was achieved that essentially solved the ozone depletion problem.
- Mario J. Molina
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Image of Jonathan Sacks
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
- Jonathan Sacks
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Image of Gina Torres
My view of myself doesn't change. I know who I am. I'm Cuban American; both my parents are Cuban - one was a little browner than the other one. That's who I am. I feel sorry that it's taken so long for the film industry to figure it out and to catch up.
- Gina Torres
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Image of Charlie Munger
When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change.
- Charlie Munger
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Image of Stan Lee
I wouldn't mind, if Peter Parker had originally been black, a Latino, an Indian, or anything else, that he stay that way. But we originally made him white. I don't see any reason to change that.
- Stan Lee
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Image of Michelle Obama
I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
- Michelle Obama
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Image of Richard Rohr
This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.
- Richard Rohr
Collection: Change
Image of Natalya Neidhart
Sometimes the best thing we can ask for is change, and a fresh start forces us to confront change head-on.
- Natalya Neidhart
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Image of DeRay Mckesson
I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.
- DeRay Mckesson
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Image of Jennifer Doudna
One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.
- Jennifer Doudna
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Image of Sidney Poitier
I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
- Sidney Poitier
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Image of John D. MacDonald
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
- John D. MacDonald
Collection: Change
Image of Mike Lindell
You know, my sister, she does my hair, and she says, 'Why don't you try changing your hairstyle?' And I go, 'I like it. Why would I change something I like?'
- Mike Lindell
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Image of Jack Ma
The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.
- Jack Ma
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Image of Brad Pitt
I've been no stranger to change.
- Brad Pitt
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Image of Emile Durkheim
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.
- Emile Durkheim
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Image of Richard Parsons
I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business.
- Richard Parsons
Collection: Change
Image of Shah Rukh Khan
You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.
- Shah Rukh Khan
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Image of Marley Dias
My goal for the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign is to create systemic change across all school systems. I want there to be diverse books that reflect the lives of every person, regardless of whether or not they are in the majority.
- Marley Dias
Collection: Change