Change Quotes

You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

It only takes one person to mobilize a community and inspire change. Even if you don't feel like you have it in you, it's in you. You have to believe in yourself. People will see your vision and passion and follow you.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

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.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

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

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

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.