Top 1200 Positive Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.

It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.

I am a person of action. If I see I can bring a positive change, I will go for it, never mind that something might be hard to achieve.

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

I really think positive and hope that everything works out. Because you can't really change anything.

Sometimes in order for change to be made in a positive fashion, we must force ourselves to look unblinkingly at painful realities and reevaluate.

Together, we must renew our continued commitment to serve and pledge to bring a positive change to our communities.

I have always believed that cinema is one of the greatest instruments of positive social change. Stories can be light, engaging and poignant, but they need to say something.

The one thing I always hear from the players is they say, 'You never change... no matter what happens, you have conversations with us, you are always positive.' They appreciate that.

Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.

I think 'destined for greatness,' for me, is digging deep inside and knowing that I will always strive to be the best person I can possibly be and effect change in a positive way.

My wife Julie and I are driven to make positive and enduring change in our beloved city of Philadelphia, in California, in Haiti, and around the world.

A visionary leadership is required to harness rapid technological change for positive benefit rather than allowing to become disruptive and further exacerbate economic inequality.

In Burma, we are being told by so-called experts and some governments that we must be patient and that there can be incremental change through Parliament. The UN did this, and failed spectacularly, and while they did, the human rights situation got worse. The dictatorship ignored the UN and international community, making not a single concession. Now we are being told again these Parliaments are new, we should engage with them and if improved they can bring positive change. I don't place any hope in that.

I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.

The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

Wanting a more positive environment isn't enough. You need to do something, and it doesn't require a great deal of effort or some huge change in the way you approach things at work.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

When you think positively, you attract positive people. If I'm on a mission to be successful, and I'm positive all the time, then more positive people will come around me, and we'll help each other. If you're negative, you'll find yourself surrounded by negative people.

I'm excited to see the growth in women's cycling, and I think the Women's Tour has had a really positive impact on that change.

If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.

The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.

We believe the Queer community is a model for our global extended family, and together we have the power to create positive change for all of humanity.

As powerful as the power of positive thoughts are, depression biologically interferes with the brain's ability to maintain a positive thought for any period of time. Like the farmer who casts his seed upon the rocks, all the positive thoughts in the world presented to the depressed mind will not bear fruit.

For every positive change you make in your life, something else also changes for the better - it creates a chain reaction.

I always feel good after I change my hair. You get a haircut and feel positive and ready to take on the day.

I want to be the most influential champion, in a positive light. I want to change the world.

When nonprofits, companies and consumers work together, we believe we can make long term, positive change for the millions of people in America who struggle with hunger.

The greater the prevalence of positive thoughts, the more likely you are to receive a positive outcome.

I believe in entrepreneurs. I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world.

I believe that if today's youth work together raising our collective voice, we can affect the positive environmental change that Planet Earth needs so desperately.

I genuinely do want the world to change in a positive way, but I wouldn't call myself an activist, you know? I'm an entertainer who engages with activism because it feels really meaningful for me.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Working as a Foreign Office lawyer in 2003, I was less worried by the quibbling over U.N. resolutions on Iraq than the coalition's capacity to effect positive change.

I really believe in positive energy and positive thinking and dreams and all that type of stuff.

Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see. It is the blueprint for our reality, which can change with a single, positive thought. All it takes is faith, if you're open to it

When disco came around the first time, there was this real core of progressive thinking and a positive lyrical content - about freedom, the possibilities of love, change and expression.

Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.

Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together to make a positive social change.

I think that 9/11 is a greater loss if we do not change our behavior in some way. I think that if we don't turn it into a positive change in some way, those innocent people really died for no purpose. I would like to think they had some important purpose. What I see, that I don't like, is the product of what our land of opportunity can breed.

A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.

I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change.

Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change.

Change your thinking. Change your life! Your thoughts create your reality. Practice positive thinking. Act the way you want to be, and soon you will be the way you act.

Never waste a good crisis...Don't waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security.

Pop music has been the center of change, you know? And positive messages. I would love to get back to that place because I think we've lost it a little bit.

Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.

I feel positive about what I do. And, whoever is doing reggae, they have to have positive words and no negativity. They have to be positive. Yes, if you call it reggae, and it is negative words, it is not reggae.

I was a bad person. I needed to change. I wasn't bringing anything into my life, but negative. I needed to bring some positive and to do that I've got to start within.

We have a duty to show up in the world with meaning and purpose and commitment to doing good. And to use any privilege that we have to make positive change and to disrupt oppressive systems.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share a common cause and vision of what's possible. This is good news for those of us intent on creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical connections. We don't need to convince large numbers of people to change; instead, we need to connect with kindred spirits. Through these relationships, we will develop the new knowledge, practices, courage and commitment that lead to broad-based change.

Embracing uniqueness and showcasing the beauty of our differences is what I am all about so the fact that my words and image can impact positive change is a perk of this job I never expected I would have.

As athletes and pro sports franchises, we have the responsibility to use our platform to affect positive change in the community. I take it seriously.

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected.

Climate change is not an excuse for the EPA to ignore the bounds of law and issue illegal regulations that will cost jobs, shutter industries, and have little to no positive impact on the environment.

The replacement of negative thought with positive thought brings about a spiritual and physical change that can heal.

Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.