Change Is Always For The Better Quotes

#1. Only very young people believe that change is always for the better.

Michael Nava

#2. I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on these TV shows and appearing on the cover of this or that. Now kids can see how baseball can change your life. Frank Thomas did that for me.

Matt Kemp

#3. What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science - information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won't.

Archibald MacLeish

#4. Let's talk about the hair. Why do I call it "yellow" hair and not "blond" hair? Because I'm pretty sure everybody calls my hair "brown." When I read fairy tales to my daughter I always change the word "blond" to "yellow," because I don't want her to think that blond hair is somehow better.

Tina Fey

#5. We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.

John Wesley

#6. If you don't like it, change it, we said, to each other and to ourselves. And so we would change for the man, for another one. Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.

Margaret Atwood

#7. We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.

Matt Redman

#8. My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carol Moseley Braun

#9. It was too late to change anything. Too late to make different choices. To be a better mother than she had been. Kate could only be the mother that she was, Amelia's mother - the curator of her memory, the keeper of her secrets, the cherisher of her heart. That, she would always be.

Kimberly McCreight

#10. No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

Madonna

#11. There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

Jacque Fresco

#12. Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution
the harshest penalty possible? Or is the public best served by finding ways to change a kid's lot in life for the better, even if that means opening the prison door?

Edward Humes

#13. The key to a better life isn't always a change of scenery. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. No matter what happens throughout your day ... staying positive is always better than being negative. For It's always far better to believe things will change for the better than ... that it won't.

Timothy Pina

#16. You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

Tom Robbins

#17. To me, being appropriate
does not always mean conforming. Often it means just
the opposite. Sometimes, refusing to conform and even confronting
is not only appropriate but necessary to change the
world for the better.

Donda West

#18. I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.

Derek Jeter

#19. There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#20. Most things happen for a reason and it may take years to discover why, but this is almost always for the better.

Ursula A. Ciller

#21. We can always do anything as long as we are alive. We can always change, grow, evolve into a far better version of ourselves. It is surely what life is for.

Mary Balogh

#22. Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Joyce Meyer

#23. Don't waste your entire life always waiting for the end of the day, for the weekend, for summer, for things to
change, for something better. Enjoy as much of the present as you can. Now is happening. Now is good. Now belongs to you.

Emm Roy

#24. If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real.

Richard Flanagan

#25. He had never held any illusions that he would change the whole world, of course, or even a substantial portion of it, but he had always held strongly that fighting to better just his own little pocket of the world was a worthwhile course. And

R.A. Salvatore

#26. Things change, and not always for the better.

Michelle Moran

#27. Aunt Rachel says tahat the universe is always trying to speak to us, and that the universe doesn't waste time speaking about things that aren't within our direct power to influence or change. But if that's true, the universe needs a better signal.

Sarah Ockler

#28. Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

Oscar Niemeyer

#29. You don't really think that things will ever get better, but they do. People always ask me, "What would you say to gay teen youth that are suicidal, or someone who is addicted right now?," and it's hard to say with words that things will change, but they do.

Patty Schemel

#30. I think I've always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and fight injustices and fight violence, and then being an artist, which is a very different strain.

Eve Ensler

#31. No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

Guy Finley

#32. Always keep an open mind and to listen to what those around you have to say about you. You might actually learn something that may help you become a better person!

Auliq Ice

#33. Sometimes what we desire the most can change who we are, and it's up to us to decide if that's for better or worse. You must learn to control those desires so that you're always on the right path, even if that means never attaining or holding on to the thing you want most." Niko's

Dannika Dark

#34. But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth.

Camron Wright

#35. It's better to end something and start another than to imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible. Life can never promise to always be happy but life gets better after you accept things you just can't change. For you Jelle, from me.. with luv. He-he!

Marione Ashley

#36. MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.

Hillary DePiano

#37. An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

Pope Francis

#38. A Change in life will not always be the Best, but a try to take a Chance for a Better life will be never a Loss in our Life.

Jan Jansen

#39. I don't believe the old statement, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." If that were the case, then Cadillacs and Jaguars and Mercedes would never make a change. I've always looked for ways to make things better.

Vic Bubas

#40. What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE.

Ralph Steadman

#41. Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always got to get better.

Mary Quant

#42. Youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

Amelia Barr

#43. You may not always change your situation but you can always change your perception. For better or worse, it will change the situation.

Debasish Mridha

#44. Any change, even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Arnold Bennett

#45. Before any change for the better can take place, a level of understanding is always needed; because without understanding we tend to fall back on the automatic responses and reactions that we have built up over our lives.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#46. I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there, but my purpose is so much greater that I'm always able to get back on focus.

Jeet Banerjee

#47. It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.

Donna Freitas

#48. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.
(Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)

Barack Obama

#49. There is always the possibility of a better life with every change that we face, but sometimes we have to look hard for it.

David Bowick

#50. Being popular doesn't always win spiritual change. Christ didn't pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point - to make people realize how much better they could become.

Shannon L. Alder

#51. The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.

George Meany

#52. I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a better way of doing things, then I'm all for it.

James Van Fleet

#53. This wasn't good, but it was something. Cath could always change it later. That was the beauty in stacking up words
they got cheaper, the more you had of them. It would feel good to come back and cut this when she had worked her way to something better.

Rainbow Rowell

#54. Always write to change society for the better.
You will go, but it will live as a treasure forever.

Debasish Mridha

#55. The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

Georg Baselitz

#56. Be Happy with what we Have Now in the Future it can change, but that is not Always to Better.

Jan Jansen

#57. Where there is oppression, there would be oppositions. Where there is "Knowledge" there would be progression. Where there is "HATE" evil will always prevail. Where there is forgiveness, there's a better Future. Where there is ignorance, there's a lack of Wisdom. Change is an ongoing process.

Henry Johnson Jr

#58. I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.

Rachel Weisz

#59. Adversity is a mirage. People, situations, and relationships sometimes change for the worst but inevitably clear a path for far better replacements. The continued journey will always find bliss.

Carl Henegan

#60. I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

Michael Bloomberg

#61. Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.

Henry Petroski

#62. Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Because it is precisely this secret dream that keeps you enslaved to the system.

Slavoj Zizek