Change Quotes

Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.

~ Hillary Clinton

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

~ Marlene Dietrich

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

~ Kathryn Bigelow

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

~ Ken Follett

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

~ Hillary Clinton

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

~ Charles Eames

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

~ Seth Godin

I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don't like. I think that's part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

~ Tom Brady

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.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.

~ Florence Griffith Joyner

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

~ Gilda Radner

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms.

~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

~ Thomas Carlyle

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

~ Kate Winslet

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

~ Maya Angelou

My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.

~ Geri Halliwell

You can't change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

~ William H. Mcraven

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

~ Mary Mcleod Bethune

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

~ Bobby Knight

The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness.

~ Shari Arison

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

~ Horace

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

~ Harry S Truman

I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.

~ Shirley Chisholm

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

~ David Ben-Gurion

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.

~ Wade Davis

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

~ M. Scott Peck

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

~ Thomas Friedman

The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.

~ Jim Leach

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

~ Czeslaw Milosz

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

~ Dalai Lama

You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.

~ Margot Lee Shetterly

In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.

~ Gary Hamel

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

~ Andy Grove

With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.

~ Carolyn Mccarthy

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

~ Eve Plumb

When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.

~ Malala Yousafzai