Top 1000 Change Quotes & Sayings

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

There is nothing permanent except change.

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Your problems never cease. They just change.

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

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.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Change before you have to.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

You can't change somebody's character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

Nothing endures but change.

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Everything changes but change.

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can't put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You'll never learn.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.

There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

A change of environment is pretty refreshing.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

It's never too late to get fit; it's never too late to feel good and confident and change the way you eat and train. Just give it a go and momentum will take you the rest of the way.

I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world - one reader at a time.

We have to fight climate change like we actually want to win.

Habits change into character.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.