Top 100 For Change Quotes
#1. Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.
Mary Baker Eddy
#2. We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change.
Paul Watson
#3. Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change.
The Sunborn
Gregory Benford
#4. Whether we realize it or not, we're all destined for change. We will all transform into something as we live our lives. But who will we ultimately become, and what will our transformation process be like? The answers depend largely on whether we allow God to direct us through the course.
Kendra Norman
#5. Life is more than a heartbeat, Mage. It's the essence of our souls and the fiber of our beings. It is the breath of imagination within our souls; it's the fire in our hearts that burns for change and progress. Extinguish the fire and you have killed the man, even if he still draws breath.
Dannika Dark
#6. But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.
Ally Carter
#7. The time for change is when it can no longer be resisted. In other words, when you have a man by the balls and are pulling hard, he will invariably follow in your footsteps.
Michael Dobbs
#9. America's greatest long-term influence on China comes from playing host to the thousands of students who come from China each year, some of the ablest Chinese scholars and scientists. They will be the most powerful agents for change in China.
Lee Kuan Yew
#10. The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.
Nelson Mandela
#11. When are we going to stop being afraid to push for change and begin putting into action the things we have discussed for centuries? Mental health cannot wait any longer. Lets get to work!
Tamara Hill
#12. No one ever volunteers for change. Even when the situation they're in makes them unhappy, most people would rather stick with the unhappy they know, than take a chance on something unknown.
Alyson Noel
#13. Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it.
James Edward Smith
#14. The world is full of people who remain in relationships that they realize they have no business in. Yet, they stay, hoping and praying for change, believing that the other person will eventually appreciate them and recognize their value.
Zane
#15. Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.
Ron Fournier
#16. So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for.
Susan Sarandon
#17. Feminism is a movement for change, not a changing of the guard.
Finn Mackay
#18. Activism has always been the driving force for change.
David Swanson
#19. Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
Mahmoud Darwish
#20. I'm an advocate for change and eager to break a little glass when needed,
Ursula Burns
#21. Judge for yourself who's still fighting for change and who got sick on power, because the person in the Miraflores has forgotten about the people of Venezuela.
Henrique Capriles Radonski
#22. Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.
Richard Branson
#23. People yearn for change, they relish being part of a movement, and they talk about things that are remarkable, not boring.
Seth Godin
#24. Loss is a significant force that can serve as a catalyst for change. It can bring about an awakening, drawing out something sacred within us.
Mark Ireland
#25. The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou
#26. The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change ...
Malcolm Fraser
#28. If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I'd still say no.
Bo Burnham
#29. You take the first steps to success when you feel hungry for change.
Debasish Mridha
#30. You must let life flow naturally, for life's secret is patience; you must stop pushing for change and allow things to unfold.
Leon Brown
#31. The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.
Andreas Schleicher
#32. A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#33. After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.
Tate Taylor
#34. Nothing carries more potential for change than individual acts of human kindness.
Jamie Winship
#35. People reach a point of readiness for change when they reach their own personal bottom.
Marshall Sylver
#36. Kindness moves mountains. Acceptance opens doors, makes room for change, diffuses misunderstandin g.
Dianna Agron
#37. You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change.
Eddie Vedder
#38. If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.
Jesse Jackson
#39. I want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.
Tim Cook
#40. We play in the ocean every day but for some reason we don't make as much noise about the environment as we should. I believe the average surfer needs to do a lot more to become a greater catalyst for change
Mark Price
#41. Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls' education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#42. Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.
Peter Block
#44. Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
Namie Amuro
#45. Better to be a catalyst for change than a martyr for lies.
Karina Halle
#46. One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice.
Scott Harshbarger
#47. TV dramas function as vehicles for remodeling female subjects for the new social order - in other words, as an agent for change.
Jie Yang
#48. There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it; there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it; and there are people who move, people who make things happen.
Benjamin Franklin
#49. I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.
William J. Clinton
#51. The need to do something about global warming is obvious. And it's also pretty clear that the public understands the need for change and is ready to embrace it. What is missing is political will in Congress to stand up to the powerful energy companies and their well-paid lobbyists.
Chellie Pingree
#52. Jasnah sniffed. Your tutors were idiots. Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change, Shallan.
Brandon Sanderson
#53. If we are going to realise our ambition of ending the harmful practices of FGM and forced marriage, the role of young people in pushing for change is crucial. We also need to ensure that everyone, from government to civil society, is playing their part.
Theresa May
#54. People, even children, aren't really afraid of change. They're afraid of not being prepared for change.
Paul Smith
#55. Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.
Eve Ensler
#56. There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
#57. The time for change had come, and it wasn't until that moment that the Lady remembered, even answers had their own clock.
Erin Cole
#58. I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.
Li Bingbing
#59. Fight for change? Thirst for difference?
Start talking what men avoid talking about.
Toba Beta
#60. For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.
Dalai Lama
#61. The responsibility for change ... lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
Alvin Toffler
#63. A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl S. Buck
#64. Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsey Clark
#65. My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.
GG Allin
#66. In film, because you know where the ending is, characters can change, but in television, you substitute revelation for change, and that can be hard to pull off.
Hugh Laurie
#67. Principle of Change #2: Self-awareness is the foundation for change.
Brett Blumenthal
#68. Those who get into the business of truth are seldom satisfied. For truth is organic and destined for change.
Keela Sanders
#70. NGOs are now turning to market forces as a catalyst for change
Claude Martin
#71. While the big events of our lives create the impetus for change, it is the moment-by- moment choices that mold and shape us.
Karen Kimsey-House
#72. When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in human misery, the demand for change will be made-not for the sake of minority people, but for the sake of all of us.
John Howard Griffin
#73. The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
Rafik Hariri
#74. For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.
Douglas Coupland
#75. Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.
Russell Baker
#76. In the future, 'the networked' will sometimes form alliances with the Silicon Valley companies against Congress, but sometimes we are going to want and need to target our campaigns for change at the companies themselves.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#77. I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.
Rupert Murdoch
#78. Will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.
Dorothy Gilman
#79. If you're passing the buck, don't ask for change.
David Gerrold
#80. My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change ...
Elizabeth Dole
#81. Why don't people fight for change?" "Because the ones who do get hunted down.
Peter Tieryas
#82. Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.
Philippe Kahn
#83. Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.
Alexander Lebed
#84. Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive.
Philip Zimbardo
#85. If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.
Flannery O'Connor
#86. Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Alvin Toffler
#87. David could hear the voices that said, then why hadn't he run for a political seat to work for change? His answer to them would be that he was too much in love with his woman and his children, and the people around him to leave his land to take up a political office;
Toni Mariani
#88. Albertans were looking for change. And so I think that we're staying true to our principles by working to deliver on that change. And I think that is what people were looking for
Rachel Notley
#89. The problem is we are not eating food anymore, we are eating food like products. (Hungry For Change Film)
Alejandro Junger
#90. Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.
Jean Sasson
#91. Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.
Howard Bloom
#93. Anger has two benefits: it provides a warning and the necessary energy for change.
David W. Earle
#95. You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.
Deborah Ellis
#96. You can be inspired by others, but when you're inspired from within then you have real power for change.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#97. The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.
Angela Merkel
#98. 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
#99. There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that change.
Kathryn Budig
#100. Obama's plan for "change": Let's do everything Bush did, only with more suck! Because it just didn't suck badly enough the first time!
Michel Templet
