Change Quotes
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While I think it is necessary to be honest about the racism of our past and present, it is also necessary to empower children (and adults) with the vision that change is possible. Concrete examples are critical.
Beverly Daniel Tatum
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So much history can be lost if no one tells the story - so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.
Alanis Obomsawin
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Whether your life is destined to be short or to be long, along the way on that journey, if you access that inner power, not only will you change your life in a positive way, you'll ultimately help change other peoples lives. You will be carrying something forward.
Brad Willis
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I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.
Wangechi Mutu
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Never forget that you have the spark of the divine in you. Whatever you do or don't do won't change this fact.
Elaine A. Cannon
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My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.
Rene Descartes
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Some players like to change clubs around the green to hit high or low shots. I play all of my short-game shots with my 54-degree sand wedge and change my ball position to hit it higher or lower. I think it's easier to learn one club than four.
Ernie Els
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Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.
Gautama Buddha
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When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.
Stephen Covey
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Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run the risk of eventually having to condemn as heretics those who would declare the earth to stand still and the sun to change position-eventually, I say, at such a time as it might be physically or logically proved that the earth moves and the sun stands still.
Galileo Galilei
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Just because you lost your last game doesn't mean you change anything.
Brian O'Driscoll
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Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people's lives and change and lift them up.
Norman Vincent Peale
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You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events.
Amy Chan
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Before change can be managed, it has to be sparked.
Amber Naslund
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I want to change a lot.
Courteney Cox
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The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
Chris Prentiss
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Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters.
George Weigel
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The only lasting truth is change. God is change.
Octavia E. Butler
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
Amelia Barr
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One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.
Beverly Donofrio
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These are people who want to see change in the way Washington works.
Francine Busby
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We did wanna change the name. We were actually putting names in a hat. It was the people making an income off Motley Crue that talked us out of it. The booking agent was getting them between a half a million and a million dollars a show as Motley Crue. Then there was the manager who got 10 to 15 percent off Motley Crue.
John Corabi Mötley Crüe
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Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.
George Monbiot
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Erica Jong