Top 100 Change If Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I don't want to change sides and just be told what to do. There's no reason to change if I do that.
Ray Bradbury
#3. People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.
Conor Oberst
#4. Well, I was done hiding, hating, or apologizing for the parts of me I hadn't chosen and couldn't change. If some people had a problem with my differences, that was just too fucking bad for them.
Jeaniene Frost
#5. If you know what matters to you, it's easier to commit to change. If you can't identify what matters to you, you won't know when it's being threatened. And in my experience, people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened.
Marshall Goldsmith
#6. A gauge of a life well-led: when it won't change if something you own breaks or is stolen; even a heart.
Gregor Collins
#7. I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#8. If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
Jack Dixon
#9. In order for things to change, YOU MUST change. If you don't change, then nothing will change. IF you will change, EVERYTHING will change for you.
Duc Vuong
#10. If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better.
Jim Rohn
#11. You have to direct change; if you don't do so, change will direct you. Guess ... the direction change will offer you is not a comfortable one. But the direction you can offer change will be the most comfortable. Go, make a change now!
Israelmore Ayivor
#12. Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?
Philip Yancey
#13. I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.
Wallace Shawn
#14. There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Winston Churchill
#15. I think that everyone can change if the right person comes along, and I think that every girl wants to be the right person
Lauren Conrad
#16. I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it ...
Emily Bronte
#17. What is it about me that other people would change if they could? He
Andy Andrews
#18. When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
Ann Patchett
#19. If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
Eldridge Cleaver
#20. From then on, I vowed, I would never say anything negative about a woman's appearance. it had nothing to do with them as a person and it wasn't something they could easily change. If I didn't want looks to matter, I would have to stop talking and acting as if they did.
Mara Wilson
#21. We can never fully impact others to change if there is no evidence of change in our lives.
E'yen A. Gardner
#22. So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
Bob Inglis
#23. Our message and methodology have changed, do change, and must change if we are faithful to the ongoing and unchanging mission of Jesus Christ.
Brian D. McLaren
#24. You can't meet Jesus and not change. If you haven't changed, you haven't met the real Jesus.
Mark Driscoll
#25. Nothing will change if you worry. Rather it may aggravate negative emotions within you. Don't waste your time worrying.
Maddy Malhotra
#26. Ambivalence is one of the biggest enemies of change. If you aren't sure that you really want to take action on something such as your weight, ambivalence will usually win.
Linda Spangle
#27. Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.
Louise Penny
#28. Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.
Stephen Colbert
#29. No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.
Kinky Friedman
#30. How would your life change if your self-esteem improved?
Caroline Myss
#31. People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
Stephen R. Covey
#32. The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem.
Mark Wahlberg
#33. She was miserable because she kept hoping things would change. If she could eradicate the hope, she could eradicate the sadness.
Tommy Wallach
#34. She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.
Bryan Adams
#35. How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.
Emily Perkins
#36. Outsourcing is a reflection of a bad economic environment domestically. If you fix that, you fix outsourcing. Our primary export is paper money, and that should change if you change the monetary policy.
Ron Paul
#37. If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.
Eckhart Tolle
#38. How will the world change if we do not question it?
Kate DiCamillo
#40. Every day on a rapid change. If you find the exact point, you will survive or you will suffer
Thoughts
#41. This is how best to effect change. If you reiterate the same fears and the same sensible measures with proper augmentation enough times, even difficult decisions will begin to seem like the only justifiable solutions.
Olli Jalonen
#42. Nothing will change if you blame. Rather it will aggravate negative emotions within you. Don't waste your time blaming.
Maddy Malhotra
#43. Life does not change if you only modify the content, your life will change if you will dare to alter the context.
Santosh Kalwar
#44. In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.
Shalom Harlow
#45. Imagine how much a man's life would change if he trusted that he was loved by God.
Donald Miller
#46. Character wasn't about perfection. It was about wisdom and the ability to learn and change. If
Aleatha Romig
#47. For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must ...
David Nicholls
#48. One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.
Barbara De Angelis
#49. Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over ...
Emma Goldman
#50. Sometimes you have to realise that things will never change if you don't make a change yourself, and sometimes, you need to realise that it only happened so that you could learn something.
Charlotte Eriksson
#51. What we are is what we receive. It is not about waiting for something outside ourselves to change - we must actively be the change if we wish to see the result.
Alaric Hutchinson
#52. Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.
Roger Zelazny
#53. Nothing's going to change if you're just thinking about it. No matter how much you worry about someone else's problems.... you can't fix it for them.
Inio Asano
#54. People don't want to change. It's hard for people to change and it's hard for businesses to change. If I was running an oil company, I would be resistant to change too.
Ed Begley Jr.
#55. There's something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they're by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.
Charles Duhigg
#56. Marketers ... Can't simply put a more environmentally friendly package on the shelves and assume that shoppers will recognize and appreciate the change. If the goal is to drive preference or justify a price premium, the environmental benefit needs to be conveyed.
Scott Young
#57. Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#59. Magic is natural. It is a harmonious movement of energies to create a needed change. If you wish to practice magic,
all thoughts of it being paranormal or supernatural must be forgotten.
Scott Cunningham
#60. You can't grow, you can't change if you do the same things again and again.
Burbuqe Raufi
#61. How do you decisions change if retirement is not an option?
Ramit Sethi
#62. I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that campaign. It brought all the memories back of everything with Clinton and Obama, and Sarah Palin and McCain, and choosing her, and John Edwards. It was an interesting book.
Annette Bening
#63. Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.
Adrien Brody
#64. Cooking is like fashion. Always, I like to try to change. If I'm traveling in a different country - to Australia, the Bahamas, Budapest, Moscow - and I see a new ingredient, I like to try it in a new dish.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#65. Things were about to change. If nothing changed, I wouldn't be writing this down because this is a book about the time when everything changed. And isn't that what every book is about? No, seriously, isn't it? I don't read books.
David Iserson
#66. How would your relationships change if you resolved never to lie again? What truths about yourself might suddenly come into view? What kind of person would you become? And how might you change the people around you? It is worth finding out.
Sam Harris
#67. Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don't work well, something else will. There's always money being lost, so someone out there has to win.
Gil Blake
#68. Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
Elon Musk
#69. You ever heard the phrase 'nice guys finish last'? It's true. Been true my whole life. So, maybe it'd be nice for me for a change, if someone thought I was worth fightin' for.
Lorelei James
#70. You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
Carlos Ghosn
#71. You are new at every moment. You are an extension of the previous moment of your awareness. You can radically change, if you unhook yourself from what you have been.
Frederick Lenz
#73. A strange stillness had settled over him, as well, a waiting. The earth was shifting beneath him, and he had the hideous suspicion that his entire life was about to change if he didn't get out of there, now. Away from the unexpected, undeniable lure of the dowdy young woman in front of him.
Anne Stuart
#74. History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick
Edward Hallett Carr
#75. The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.
Samael Aun Weor
#76. To be well married you have to a penchant for the intricacies of intimacy and larval change..If the personality is a spider's web, you will want to know every thread ... Pleasures no longer come to you, but there are pickings to be had if you can learn to scavenge for them" ("The Body")
Hanif Kureishi
#77. If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.
Trent Reznor
#79. When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.
Jonah Hill
#80. It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
Vernon Howard
#81. The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
Pete Carroll
#82. There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#83. When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.
Andy Warhol
#84. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.
S. Truett Cathy
#85. Things can change if you stop accepting the unacceptable.
Jeanette Coron
#87. I laugh. Sweetheart, save your piggy-bank change. If your dog's missing, put up flyers. If a guy dumped you for a hotter girl, stuff your bra and make him jealous. That advice, it's all free, by the way, 'cause that's how I roll.
Jodi Picoult
#88. Dreams can change, if we all stuck with our first dreams there would be a lot of cowboys and princesses running around.
Stephen Colbert
#89. If you are satisfied with the results you are now getting, why change? If you are not satisfied, why not experiment?
Dale Carnegie
#90. We cannot make any change if we don't change ourselves .
Abdel Halim
#91. You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.
Shimon Peres
#92. The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
Willem De Kooning
#93. Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#94. You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
Bell Hooks
#95. We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
Vicente Fox
#96. I'm truly, truly boring! I don't change. If people know me, I have not changed.
Donna Karan
#97. An opportunity always comes before a change. If you wait for a change to occur in order to grab an opportunity, you'll lose all opportunities coming your way.
Robin Sacredfire
#98. There is no growth if there is no change. There is no change if there is no loss. There is no loss if there is no pain.
Rick Warren
#99. If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.
Ted Atoka
#100. And yet the night was still fresh: young as new dawn.
There was still time for worlds to change, if that was to be their fate.
Ross Turner
