Everybody Can Change Quotes

#1. As much as people would like to disrupt the world by going their own way entirely, you cannot change an existing system without also becoming a little part of it in order to change it from the inside. Everybody can change something, but nobody can change everything.

Rick Falkvinge

#2. People don't change, Lola said. Maybe you're still young enough to pretend that's not true. People are who they are, and everybody around them has to take it or go somewhere else.

Charles Frazier

#3. I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.

Cory Booker

#4. I try to have an open ear, but at the end, it would never change direction to where I think I should go. Because if I listened to everybody else, they're thinking about what's right now or what was the last thing - they're not thinking about what's next.

Paul Weller

#5. 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

#6. Don't worry about wanting to change; start worrying when you don't feel like changing anymore. And in the meantime, enjoy every version of yourself you ever meet, because not everybody who discovers their true identity likes what they find.

Antony John

#7. Everybody has a list of 100 things they would like to change about themselves. But it's all about focusing on the good things.

Taylor Swift

#8. Everybody wants a change and change happens in the life of everybody each day, but not all changes are preferable

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. Of course you're right. It's just a hell of a time to be alive, is all - just this goddamn messy business of people having to get used to new ideas. And people just don't, that's all. I wish this were a hundred years from now, with everybody used to the change.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#10. What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

Mark Batterson

#11. Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

Jonathan Lethem

#12. Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

Peter Drucker

#13. Don't change shape," Raphael snapped.
"Shut up."
"Be good or I'll kiss you in front of everybody."
"Hell no," I snarled. I had to hold on and live through this so I could punch him in the face. It was a great goal.

Ilona Andrews

#14. A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.

Chaka Khan

#15. Everybody wants to get along with everyone else in the sandbox. I'm that kind of kid, you know what I mean? That will never change about me.

Eddie Cahill

#16. The whole concept behind 'Forty Chances' is really a mindset: If everybody thought they had to put themselves out of business in 40 years, you had 40 chances to succeed in what your primary goals are, you would probably be more urgent and you would be forced to change quicker.

Howard Graham Buffett

#17. The Avalanche," peacemaker Rachel recites, "is very important. It's a privilege to sing it. It's a celebration of our past." Everybody around the table smiles at her.
"Yeah? Well, I've seen how easily the past can get rewritten." I glare at Mr. Oamaru. "Lyrics change. New authors come along.

Karen Russell

#18. Everybody is going to have an opinion on you; not everyone is going to like you. You can't live your life based on other people's opinions of you or let that change what you do or how you feel about yourself, because then you're not living.

Rumer Willis

#19. Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.

Guy Burgess

#20. I have often remarked- I suppose everybody has- that one's going away from a familiar place, would seem to be the signal for a change in it.

Charles Dickens

#21. The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change.

E.B. White

#22. If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#23. Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it

Phil Harding

#24. Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.

Novak Djokovic

#25. Piracy is important to talk about. It's harming the music industry. It hurts all of us. The public needs to understand every time they buy a pirated CD, they hurt the industry. The only ones who can change that are the fans and the people that buy CDs. It's everybody's responsibility to prevent it.

Luis Miguel

#26. The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.

Hugh MacLeod

#27. My hope is that when someone has that call to action, they realize that everybody can do something, even if that's just changing their own thinking. Women have to change the way they think, too. Not just men.

Melanne Verveer

#28. Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Rob Reiner

#29. Everybody can write a beginning and an ending, but to actually define that middle point where everything will go from professional to person, where everything will change, is always the hardest part, because it can very easily be too constructed, too artificial.

Tobias Lindholm

#30. Only everybody-all-a t-once can change the current chaos.

Adi Da

#31. For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.

Mitch McConnell

#32. Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.

Eve Ensler

#33. How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?" "Then a lot of people will be early. Or late.

Anthony Doerr

#34. I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, 'Why am I lying to everybody?' I would hear other people lie and be like, 'You sound so stupid.' So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.

Kendall Jenner

#35. Everybody's enamored of the iPhone, the Google phone. But the applications are going to change. You know, we're going to start using our phones for shopping. It's going to change the nature of advertising.

Tim O'Reilly

#36. Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

Peter Drucker

#37. I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#38. So it is not one whit mysterious that we poison the water and air and topsoil, and construct ever more cunning doomsday devices, both industrial and military. Let us be perfectly frank for a change. For practically everybody, the end of the world can't come soon enough.

Kurt Vonnegut

#39. Whenever I see an opportunity and a chance to change something, I go at it and I lay out all the facts to everybody. And when I come to this space, I'm going to come with talent, I'm going to come with focus. And I'm going to do the job as competitively as the next guy.

Robert Johnson

#40. Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in.

Matt Damon

#41. I don't believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real problem.

Sheldon Whitehouse

#42. As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

William Hague

#43. So here's the flash: Continuing to live life as a victim of circumstance, forever focusing on what's wrong with everything and everybody, will never, ever, bring the life desired. It will only bring one thing: more of whatever it is we're wanting so desperately to change.

Lynn Grabhorn

#44. I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

Donald Miller

#45. You have to remember that you only want to use your dunks at the right time. If you do it at the right time, you can wake up everybody and change the whole momentum of the game. It can get the crowd up, get your teammates up. It can wake up yourself, too, if you're not shooting well.

Dwyane Wade

#46. 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

#47. Sometimes when I travel from climate to climate, my skin can change very drastically because I go from hot to cold. I get dry like everybody else - from planes.

Shay Mitchell

#48. I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Maya Angelou

#49. Everybody wants to change the world yet no one wants to change themselves.

Hamza Yusuf

#50. Everybody's life is either rewarding or an example.

Tony Robbins

#51. 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

#52. Everybody is changing.

Swami Vivekananda

#53. We ask everybody to help us to change the world, but we are not talking about our planet Earth; we are talking about the world that each one of us creates within our mind. We are talking about the story that we create.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#54. Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

Vanessa Marano

#55. shake him up. Get him out of his comfort zone so he could stop sneering at everybody else who was out of theirs. Get him thinking about something besides his own neuroses for a change.

Lev Grossman

#56. Once you take care of yourself, you become the example, and then everybody around you can change.

Mariel Hemingway

#57. I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#58. God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody; he should proselytize because the Gospel being shared is the ultimate act of love: because he thinks he can love everybody.

Criss Jami

#59. Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

Philip Roth

#60. Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

W. Edwards Deming

#61. The body is the inescapable factor, you see. You can keep in good shape for what you are, but radical change is impossible. Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal; it's living out the destiny of the body.

Robertson Davies

#62. Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.

Nina Fedoroff

#63. If I could change the structure of existence I would do it. I could see a better way to live for everybody.

Woody Allen

#64. To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

Tommy Chong

#65. I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#66. Sometimes toxic people are so resistant to change that therapy does not really help them - but they send everybody else into therapy to find ways to cope.

Amy Dickinson

#67. Hey, guys, I'm going to change," Tony announced. "You all need to get out of here for a little bit." "So fucking change. You change in the locker room all the time-what's the bug deal?" Slade asked. Tony groaned and his eyes narrowed at Slade. "Oh. Gotcha!" Slade turned and announced, "Everybody ...

Sidney Halston

#68. When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

Chris Evert

#69. I'll never understand why everybody puts so much emphasis on January first. There are three hundred and sixty-four other days in the year that you can make a change. Or make a fresh start.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#70. Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults. Instead, we have lots of miserable children that later became miserable adults. This is a fact. We cannot change that.

Marjane Satrapi

#71. I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?'

Becky G

#72. Trust me, she knew who she was dancing with the entire time. She just chose to see good in everybody. I personally don't think she should change that about herself. It's possible her energy could even bring out the best in the devil.

Unknown

#73. Everybody put on masks, including you and me. We all wear masks.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#74. There's a moment in everybody's life when you're hopeless, just hopeless with hope and trust. And then something happens, something too big to understand, and then everything changes

Will Donner

#75. Ryan Seacrest: Trouble, trouble trouble. So why do girls go for the bad guys, what is it Taylor Swift? Why?
Taylor Swift: Because maybe we could change them! Everybody wants to like tame a lion.

Taylor Swift

#76. Everybody's got regrets. It's a personal choice as to whether or not you can change.

Josh Duhamel

#77. Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

Andrew Cohen

#78. When you want something so bad and when something great happens, I think it's instinct that you say, 'This is gonna be the moment that's gonna change everything. Everybody is gonna see me a different way.'

Joan Smalls

#79. Lets make a change today while everybody takes a day off and waits to make a change tomorrow.

Auliq Ice

#80. You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change.

Florynce Kennedy

#81. Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

Marla Gibbs

#82. I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

Henry Rollins