Top 1000 Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.

Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting change.

The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I think in order to achieve real change, we as the black community need to come up with real asks and we have to determine, what do we actually want? We obviously want some social reform, on police brutality and things like that. We also need political changes. But it's more than voting. What are we as black people asking of these politicians?

Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.

For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.

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.

People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.

One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this 'climate change,' and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

I believe agriculture is the key to change for this country.

Anyone can change the world however they want for the better!

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

The world is not a static place. People change, evolve.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Change brings opportunity.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

Climate change isn't something people get to choose to believe or not: it's happening.

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.

All of the great social justice advances that we ever had in this country have come not from people with big titles and not from people at the top, but just from everyday people getting together saying 'Enough is enough. I'm going to change this, and I'm going to get involved, and I am going to be engaged.'

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

I like progress but I hate change.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.