Change Quotes

• It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.

  

  Katharine Hayhoe
  • Change
  • Climate
  • Discredit

• I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Change
  • I Think
  • Discover

• Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Single
  • Moving
  • Motivational

• Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Change
  • Force
  • Counsel

• What parents should do, ... is change the types of food they keep in the house and give (children) more opportunities for physical activity so children can eat as much as they want and play how they want.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Parents
  • Food
  • Types

• Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity.

  

  Avicenna
  • Pain
  • Circumstances
  • Temperament

• They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

  

  Confucius
  • Change
  • Wisdom
  • Happiness

• I was always the underdog that everyone identified with, and I still think I'm that way. But if you're on the other side of the fence on a certain issue, your opinion is going to change. And that was the part I was scared of, because I built my reputation on being this guy who's all about football - and I am, and I'm still the same guy, that doesn't change.

  

  Andrew Hawkins
  • Football
  • Opinion
  • Reputation

• The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god. Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.

  

  Aaron Shepard
  • Change
  • Woman
  • Snake

• At a time of change and challenge at home and abroad, these investments will enhance the security of Americans, assure the future American leadership, and help build the foundations of peace, stability, and prosperity in the years ahead.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Challenge
  • Security

• Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Emotional
  • Miracle
  • Healing

• Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Glasses

• Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Time
  • Change
  • Social mores

• Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

  

  E. B. White
  • Done
  • Why
  • Friend

• We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Support
  • Person
  • Forgive

• For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

  

  Albert Camus
  • God
  • Human Reason
  • Existentials

• When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. The process of calling it into conscious awareness can change it, and now you're storing something that's different. We all do this, for example, by inadvertently adopting a story we've heard.

  

  Elizabeth Loftus
  • Remember
  • Conscious
  • Construction

• If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Change
  • Stop

• Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

  

  Susan Minot
  • Want
  • Success
  • Change

• This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • Time
  • Great
  • Heart

• Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.

  

  Alan Weisman
  • Nature
  • Change
  • Remains

• Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.

  

  James Bryant Conant
  • Country
  • Education
  • Democracy

• When does Earl change, and how long does that take? It's a slow awakening. We have to walk that line of not having that happen too soon but not keeping him ignorant too long.

  

  Jason Lee
  • Change
  • Ignorant
  • Awakening

• The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Barrier

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