Change Initiative Quotes

#1. Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?

Charlotte Bronte

#2. I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

Stephen Covey

#3. You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves and of the world.

Hanif Kureishi

#4. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

#5. I'm just happy and proud to be playing music every day. Recognition is really cool, but it can also be kind of scary.

Justin Vernon

#6. We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. Time and again, Americans have seen the need for change, and have taken the initiative to bring that change to life.

Al Gore

#7. Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#8. I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.

Jack Welch

#9. For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

Dalai Lama

#10. Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The existing bureaucracies, public and private, will not take on the job of changing what is.

Lester Thurow

#11. With innovation and initiative we have the potential to change the world for the better.

Sameh Elsayed

#12. Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.

Victor H. Krulak

#13. In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

Aubrey De Grey

#14. If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms.

Richard Rohr

#15. With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.

John Burnside

#16. Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

Dalai Lama

#17. I don't get mad, I get even.

Patricia Briggs

#18. Someone who'll bring some normalcy into my life and help me stay in touch with reality. That is something I'm curious about. There are so many actors who are married to people from non-film backgrounds, and their marriages are successful. I'm tired of dating actresses.

Shahid Kapoor

#19. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Jesse Jackson

#20. Victims are also less likely to take initiative because they feel outcomes are not in their hands anyway. An organization filled with victims will generally have low morale, have more risk-averse behavior, and find it difficult to implement change.

John Izzo

#21. One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#22. Purpose is not an add-on, it's not an initiative. It is a culture change and it never finishes

Richard Branson

#23. Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

William Shakespeare

#24. You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.

James Mattis

#25. There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.

Colin Powell

#26. My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic.

Mike McCready

#27. Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today's digital organizations.

Pearl Zhu

#28. Modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.

Fran Lebowitz

#29. Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

Helene D. Gayle

#30. A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.

John Dewey

#31. I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

Walter Legge