Affect Change Quotes

#1. I think every person has the ability to affect change ... through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world.

Adam Yauch

#2. Powerlessness is dangerous. For most of us, the inability to affect change is a desperate feeling. We need resilience and hope and a spirit that can carry us through the doubt and fear. We need to believe that we can effect change if we want to live and love with our whole hearts.

Brene Brown

#3. In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.

Sally Kirkland

#4. Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.

Morgan Spurlock

#5. I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.

Trevor Noah

#6. Every day, all of us at Gannett are given the rare and sacred opportunity to affect change for the good in the communities we serve, to make life better for the people who trust us to know them and do right by them.

Gracia Martore

#7. By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#8. In a world of knowledge and expertise, fame and fortune, status and ranks....nothing has the power to affect change as much as love and compassion.

Ka Chinery

#9. Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry about any significant challenge to their power.

Dave Champion

#10. A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.

Michael Moore

#11. Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

Ossie Davis

#12. I'm not hoping to see that day but I know that my cinema will reach Filipinos. I know that they will embrace it one day. It will happen. I'm very sure of that. I still have faith in cinema. I still believe it can affect change.

Lav Diaz

#13. I can affect change by transforming the only thing that I ever had control over in the first place and that is myself.

Deepak Chopra

#14. Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Pete Du Pont

#15. Actions speak louder than words. Businesses must act. Once the door to social consciousness is opened, bring the spirit of your company through it to affect change.

Brian Solis

#16. What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment.

Tilda Swinton

#17. We begin from the heart, in humility and faith in the One to whom we speak. That positions us to receive God's goodness and mercy - both are gifts. When prayers come from our hearts, they will touch God's heart. Such prayers can change our lives and affect the issues we are praying about.

Charles Simpson

#18. If organs as elemental as brain and heart can be persuaded to regenerate, and others, like ears and corneas, can be fashioned from living ink, how will that change us as a species? Will the printing of organs affect our evolution? Could it alter our genes?

Diane Ackerman

#19. Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.

Rupert Murdoch

#20. While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

Bruce Hornsby

#21. Every single movie that I've ever done has affected my life; I always feel more changed by a character than I affect them or change them, always. I mean, that's just kind of the way it is.

Joaquin Phoenix

#22. How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#23. Are you saying that we can affect what happened in the past? That we can change it?

Michelle Madow

#24. My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

Kiefer Sutherland

#25. Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing it does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.

Jennifer Weiner

#26. I don't think I knew how going to Ethiopia would affect my life, through a very simple choice of buying fair-trade coffee, we can take part in change.

Hugh Jackman

#27. I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.

Erykah Badu

#28. Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

Cyndi Lee

#29. I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'

Elon Musk

#30. When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.

Robert Adams

#31. You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

James Earl Jones

#32. On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.

Martin Scorsese

#33. The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent's generation.

Bill Nye

#34. A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Postal Service must reduce its stamp prices. The change in stamp prices is expected to affect as many as seven Americans.

Conan O'Brien

#35. Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

Deepak Chopra

#36. Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

David Riesman

#37. IT is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#38. Close your eyes and breathe in, concentrate on the breath and heart beat, feel that? You are a living being capable of changing your life and possibly the lives around you, you do not merely exist, your actions affect you and others. Act with love.

Hamza Wolf

#39. If you tidy up in one shot, rather than little by little, you can dramatically change your mind-set. A change so profound that it touches your emotions will irresistibly affect your way of thinking and your lifestyle habits.

Marie Kondo

#40. I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

Chris Evans

#41. Mostly, people who do not love "change" always go into disagreement when it is suggested. The worst part of the matter that sends their neck veins bulging in vengeance is when that change for progress was meant and would need to affect their position!

Israelmore Ayivor

#42. I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn't divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Virat Kohli

#43. I have in the past tended to overestimate the amount of change I can affect in the short run and then not fully appreciate the change I can affect in the long run. And so I've learned that it's critical to think carefully about the pace of change, and it's something that I've learned the hard way.

Harry West

#44. There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

Rollo May

#45. As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities.

Ron Conway

#46. Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it's terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.

Sarah Waters

#47. Our thoughts affect our agreement with reality, our story we tell ourselves. IF you want to change your story, start with your thoughts.

Tony Curl

#48. Much of the mystery surrounding drug action can be cleared up by recognizing that drugs affect only the rate at which biologic functions proceed; they do not change the basic nature of existing processes or create new functions.

Robert Berkow

#49. Drop the thought that you cannot affect the future. Tell yourself that the future is not coming TO you, it is coming THROUGH you. The change that is coming to you is that change that you place in your future with the thoughts, words, and actions of today

Neale Donald Walsch

#50. I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my current state, I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to go back in time to fix things.

Megan McCafferty

#51. Just remember sweetie, sometimes we can;t change what happens, but we can change how we let those things affect us.

C.C. Hunter

#52. Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us.

Mary E. Pearson

#53. The word "influence" means the power to change or affect someone.

Johnny Hunt

#54. It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

Carol Bartz

#55. 99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly affect wealthy countries, the brunt of the impact is being borne by the poor, whose plight simply receives less attention.

Rajendra K. Pachauri

#56. When a person becomes aware of their genius and they live it and they give generously from it, they change the world, they affect the world. And when they depart everyone knows something is missing.

Michael Meade

#57. Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

Paul Epworth

#58. Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms

Nicholas Stern

#59. Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?

Alex Berenson

#60. Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.

Amalie Howard

#61. My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

Martha Beck

#62. Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.

John F. Kerry

#63. Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the past. It does not change, for nothing can affect it. Could we not say it is one great harmony? So why shouldn't we ask about it ...

Zhuangzi

#64. Change your energy! Be genuinely positive. Have kind energy before you say kind words or do kind gestures. Affect other people positively.

Ilchi Lee

#65. Climate change has the potential to affect everything we care about - whether it is the health of our families, the stability of our communities, or the fate of the wild animals.

Frances Beinecke

#66. You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it's vital that a change happens now.

Mos Def

#67. Imagining what would happen if you changed one thing you do on a daily basis - and thinking about how that change would affect everything else - is a clever way to conquer seemingly impossible scenarios and consider how even the smallest thing you deal with impacts everything else you do.

Tanner Christensen

#68. Every choice has the power to affect your life later on in ways you can't go back and change.

Jessi Kirby

#69. Choices can change our lives profoundly. The choice to mend a broken relationship, to say "yes" to a difficult assignment, to lay aside some important work to play with a child, to visit some forgotten person - these small choices may affect many lives eternally.

Gloria Gaither

#70. I love expression and really connecting with people. As actors, we like to tell stories because they can influence or even change people's lives. It's so cerebral, you never know who you can affect out there.

Denzel Whitaker

#71. There is no one who can change My course or affect My conduct to the slightest extent. I am the Master over all.

Sathya Sai Baba

#72. If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place.

George Nethercutt

#73. A new millennium brings with it great changes that will definitely affect the physical realm

Sunday Adelaja

#74. And it's no war games, because they all keep the same place. But like the solar system is going through a change soon and it's going to affect the Earth in about 30 years.

Jimi Hendrix

#75. What I like writing about are people's relationships, not necessarily great big dramatic things but the smaller things in life and how they affect characters and challenge and change the people that they are. I do like a happy ending, so my books have to have a happy ending.

Penny Jordan

#76. We want to bring better products to Vietnam. My hope is through changes in lifestyle and the products we consume, it will affect the people and change the way they are thinking.

Pham Nhat Vuong

#77. You're a grown-up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.

Kelly Williams Brown

#78. We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.

Wendy Kopp

#79. You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.

Jamie Zawinski