Change Is For The Better Quotes

#1. Things that seem permanent, a given, have a way of changing quickly, to something you don't recognize. And not all change is for the better.

John Jackson Miller

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

Michael Nava

#3. Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better. (January 17)

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#4. 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

#5. To change the world for the better, you must begin by changing your own life. There is no other way.

Jane Roberts

#6. You ask my love completest,
As strong next year as now,
The devil take you, sweetest,
Ere I make aught such vow.
Life is a masque that changes,
A fig for constancy!
No love at all were better,
Than love which is not free.

Ernest Dowson

#7. I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ... make it a better place for this and future generations.

W. Clement Stone

#8. When someone special walks into your life and is able to change things for the better, don't let them walk away.

Wiz Khalifa

#9. It is not uncommon for someone to be a self-saboteur and compound that by also having a victim mentality. It is as though they are holding their own breath and then blaming others for their inability to breathe. If they can break free from this cycle, everything in their life changes for the better.

Steve Maraboli

#10. Just as there is no technical improvement that would not hurt someone, so there is no change in public taste or morals, even for the better, that would not hurt someone.

Henry Hazlitt

#11. For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.

John Cheever

#12. I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

Edmund Hillary

#13. You don't need to wait for that second chance, because every second is a chance to change your life for the better.

Jeanette Coron

#14. It is not important who you are; what is important is what you have done to change humanity for the better.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Every day is a crossroads. Every day is a chance to change your life and our world for the better.

Hillary Clinton

#16. Of course, music is still a passion for me, and my new sort of career doing radio is also a passion, but definitely to be able to put a smile on someone's face. Or just waking up every day, trying to figure out how I can change a person's life for the better.

Raheem Devaughn

#17. To lead others is to help them change their thoughts, beliefs and actions for the better.

Jim Rohn

#18. Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

Iyanla Vanzant

#19. One of the most valuable gifts that a person can give (or receive) is a productive mentality. It is with a productive mentality that people change their lives for the better, in ways profound.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#20. The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

Mike Huckabee

#21. God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.

Arthur W. Pink

#22. Nothing is so unpopular as positive change amongst friends. It seems when you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change ... But only after trying their hardest to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER let anyone dilute your power to change!

Steve Maraboli

#23. We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

Henry Ford

#24. Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.

Anita Roddick

#25. For things to change you need to change. For things to get better you need to get better. The good news is you can change, you can get better and you can start right where you are at and you can go as far as you want to go.

Jim Rohn

#26. 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

#27. It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

John Steinbeck

#28. Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the better. We have the opportunity to raise the bar in the faith-based world by forging a culture in which inclusivity, diversity, and equality are paramount.

Lynn Schusterman

#29. From the weak nations' point of view, it is better if there are many powerful countries then if there are just a few. The more concentrated is power, the fewer opportunities there are to move. Space for change, space for freedom to implement change is then very narrow; very small.

Eduardo Galeano

#30. We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

C. JoyBell C.

#31. The world is going to change, by default, but if you wait for the world to change you, the change will not be for the better.

Phillip Hale

#32. But as the late socialist politician Tony Benn would often put it, social change is a combination of two things: 'the burning flame of anger at injustice, and the burning flame of hope for a better world'.

Owen Jones

#33. Have you realized that today is the tomorrow you talked about yesterday? It is your responsibility to change your life for the better.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#34. Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

Seth Godin

#35. I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future.

Hosni Mubarak

#36. The digital detox isn't what you think it is. It's like a diet. Once you go on it, you feel better until you log into social media again. If you want real change, figure out what works best for your lifestyle.

J.R. Rim

#37. She was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

Jane Austen

#38. We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

Freeman Dyson

#39. In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.

A.S.A Harrison

#40. By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.

Debasish Mridha

#41. Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better ...

Sydney J. Harris

#42. I think a friend is someone who helps you change for the better. And whether you see them once a day or once a year, if it's a true friend, it doesn't matter.

Kristin Levine

#43. Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life- a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#44. For Augustine, that's the crucial change. Knowledge is not enough for tranquillity and goodness, because it doesn't contain the motivation to be good. Only love impels action. We don't become better because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves.

David Brooks

#45. Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full time job.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#46. The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

#47. There's S-VOD, which is 3 1/2 months after the theatrical release. The windows are going to get closer and closer, and the sooner they collapse in my mind the better it'll be for everybody. It's coming, but change is hard. It will be more profitable for everybody, including exhibitors.

Jason Blum

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.

Seth Godin

#51. Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal.

Sebastian Coe

#52. All change is change for the better. There is no such thing as "change for the worse." Change is the process of Life Itself, and that process could be called by the name 'evolution.' And evolution moves in only one direction: forward, and toward improvement.

Neale Donald Walsch

#53. Welcome any change that comes into any phase in your life; insist that it is going to turn out for the better - and it will. See the Angel of God in it, and the Angel of God will make all things new.

Emmet Fox

#54. These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#55. For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

Jean Pigozzi

#56. I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#57. If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

Vaclav Havel

#58. 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

#59. Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.

Marcus J. Borg

#60. What's in your past doesn't matter. Neither does what you plan to do at some future time. What matters is what you do with this moment. You have the power to change your life for the better starting right this minute.

Deb Purdy

#61. That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.

Akhmad Kadyrov

#62. We can't be afraid to change. You may fell secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know there is a such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, maybe the very reason you don't have something better.

C. JoyBell C.

#63. The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all - today HIV/AIDS is the biggest threat to this one universal objective. UNICEF needs us all to help them change the world for children

Liam Neeson

#64. Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?

Natalie Portman

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

Arnold Bennett

#66. The passion to change the world for the better is a more powerful force than defense to keep it the same.

Simon Sinek

#67. Believe in better, which is a corporate phrase rather than a political phrase. We don't want more. We're not looking for quantity. We're looking for quality. Believe in better suggests intergenerational change. It suggests product innovation. It suggests something better for the future.

Frank Luntz

#68. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. But I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake themselves for the better.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#69. We keep waiting for another Mahatma to make a difference in our society and nation. Well it is time to stop waiting. The mantra is "I change to change India". Which means each of us is the Mahatma and has the power to change this nation. Failing which we shall never change for the better.

Jeroninio Almeida

#70. For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.

Michael Apted

#71. The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

Martina Boone

#72. 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

#73. I try to make a film that's very entertaining, very funny, but also gives you something to think about. And the strongest thing I have to offer is my point of view, to get across how I see the world in hopes that it can change the way other people see the world, hopefully for the better.

Terry Zwigoff

#74. As Chomsky says, if you act like there is no possibility of change for the better, you guarantee that there will be no change for the better. The choice is ours, the choice is yours. Robert

Noam Chomsky

#75. Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.

Russell L. Ackoff

#76. Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.

Alex Ebert

#77. The Soul of Money is an inspired and utterly fascinating book. It will change the way you think about money ... It is a book for everyone who would like to make the world a better place.

Jane Goodall

#78. Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

William Pollard

#79. All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.

Yishan Wong

#80. 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

#81. The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

Helen Keller

#82. Time when learning how to learn (and unlearn) is central to success. Instead of hiding from change, let's embrace it. Each time we try something new, we get better at getting better. Experience builds competence and confidence, so we're ready for the big changes, like re-thinking what we do.

Peter Morville

#83. 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

#84. Progress however slow is still progress, but be it for the better if sped up quicker.

Solange Nicole

#85. 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

#86. I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.

Bruce Feiler

#87. If there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

Jose Saramago

#88. For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

Haniel Long

#89. The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.

Seth Godin

#90. To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.

Carl Jung

#91. The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

Sydney Madwed

#92. Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.

Tariq Ramadan

#93. Blaming others for your low self-esteem, for your lack of money, for being overweight, or for feeling bad, is NOT going to make your life better. Take responsibility. Work on it. The choice is yours.

Maddy Malhotra

#94. I strongly believe being mayor is the public post in which you have the greatest opportunity to change peoples' lives for the better. People live in cities, not states or nations. As a mayor, you are connected directly to citizens.

Eduardo Paes

#95. In a time when society is drowning in tsunamis of misinformation, it is possible to change the world for the better if we repeat the truth often and loud enough.

Alberto Cairo

#96. And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.

Robert McChesney

#97. I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

Andrew Cuomo

#98. Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

Dan Gilroy

#99. That is definitely the heart and soul of Rise Against - that passion to inspire change for the better.

Joe Principe

#100. 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