For Change To Happen Quotes

#1. All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

Viola Davis

#2. But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

Ally Carter

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

Dalai Lama

#4. I thought the morning would bring change. But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second. A moment. In a single breath, reality as you know it can simply fall away.

Ally Carter

#5. The planes struck, tearing through the curtain of that blue September morning, exposing the dark world that lay right behind it, of populations ruthlessly exploited, inflamed with hatred, and tired of waiting for change to happen by.

Deborah Eisenberg

#6. Change cannot and will not happen overnight. But the intent to evolve will produce opportunities for growth.

Robin D. Hart

#7. It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.

Rick Pitino

#8. There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.

Ann Rule

#9. Do SMART Boards and iPads really change pedagogy for the millions of students institutionally ostracized based on their race, religion, or gender? Or are they merely Band-Aids that can be used to say, "Oh look, we did something and we never had to get our hands dirty to make it happen"?

Jose Vilson

#10. Your path is your path, for better or worse. It is what it is. You don't know what's going to happen in life. You've got right now and that's it. Can't change the past, can't predict the future.

Sabrina Paige

#11. What I really think is going to happen over time is technology is going to change the way we live for the good for the environment.

George W. Bush

#12. 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

#13. Change can be weird or even queer. But change has to happen for things to grow
for us to grow. And change isn't so bad when you're not in it alone.

P.C. Cast

#14. Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Bryant H. McGill

#15. Sam- " After you were bitten, i knew what would happen. I waited for you to change, every night, so i could bring you back and keep you from getting hurt."
Grace- " How long did you wait?"
Sam- " I haven't stopped.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. 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

#17. When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.

Nancy Werlin

#18. It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.

Donald Miller

#19. Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature they really are.

Marilyn Manson

#20. She wasn't going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened - it didn't change anything.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#21. There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.

Eckhart Tolle

#22. I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine ... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

Matthew Nable

#23. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame ... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#24. The government of Puerto Rico has every right to hold a plebiscite, to consult the people of Puerto Rico regarding their wishes. But the truth is that for a change in the status of Puerto Rico to happen, you need both Congress and Puerto Rico agreeing to it.

Pedro Pierluisi

#25. As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

Malcolm Gladwell

#26. I want to be someone she respects. Admires. But in order for that to happen, I'm going to have to change. To become stronger. As strong as her.

Amy Plum

#27. I don't think I could ever go skinny. I just don't think, physiologically, that is going to happen. I do eat healthily for a week, and then I go, 'Nah, they have these beautiful ice-cream sandwiches.' I don't think my emotional eating is ever going to change.

Rebel Wilson

#28. There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If you're not aware that this can happen, you can be seduced by evil. We need inoculations against our own potential for evil. We have to acknowledge it. Then we can change it.

Philip Zimbardo

#29. If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.

Wayne Dyer

#30. Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Jane Green

#31. ...if life never changed, there would be no room for good things that are still to happen.

Elizabeth Harmon

#32. When you're here, an i in the Ocean, you're no longer waiting for something to happen or to change. When you're here you have what you seek. Your heart opens to the gift you receive, that you are.

Jean-Pierre Weill

#33. 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

#34. Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

Ben Vereen

#35. After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.

Nicolas Bouvier

#36. It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

Julie Walters

#37. If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.

Eric Cantor

#38. If you are standing in one place waiting for something to change, you may be there for a while. You've got to move. Step up and take a swing. Make something happen

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#39. As for his sudden change of heart, he had suddenly remembered the end of Mansfield Park, and how Edmund fell out of love with Mary Crawford and came to care for Fanny. Dulcie must surely know the novel well, and would understand how such things can happen.

Barbara Pym

#40. Reading a book is like going on a great journey. You don't know what'll happen, but something is bound to change. And for me, that change has always been good.

Shannon Hale

#41. There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, 'Game over.' Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.

Alex Steffen

#42. You believe in Destiny, don't you?"
"Yes," said Leah quietly.
"Then you have to believe that things happen for a reason, and even if you change something. Destiny will find a way to fulfill her needs." - Jasmine

Jacquelyn Frank

#43. Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.)

Harold S. Kushner

#44. I thank the Lord for having the kind of a career that doesn't happen very often to an individual. A lot of times when I was playing, I pinched myself to see if it was really me and if it was really happening. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change anything.

Lou Boudreau

#45. Change is possible if you allow it to happen. Nothing in life is constant; it's always evolving and that's how life happens for me. Through my adversities I can reach new heights.

Chimnese Davids

#46. His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body - any change is for the worse. And if there is to be change, then he wants it to happen quickly, so it does not use up too much of the time remaining to him.

Susan Sontag

#47. Politicians would be well advised not to hold their breath for youth to engage in politics any time soon. Today's youth are the first generation to have realized for real change to occur, it must happen on an individual level rather than at an administrative level.

James Morcan

#48. I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.

Tom Glavine

#49. A sense that finally, finally something good was about to happen to me. I felt the proximity of change, and I had wanted more than anything for something in my life to change. Is it still possible to feel like that, I wonder? Or does it only happen to us once?

David Nicholls

#50. It is vital that you do not change the path before you. I have told you, many times, that certain events must happen in a person's life for a reason, always for a reason. The events that will unfold before you ... they must happen, Heather. They have to.

Elizabeth Morgan

#51. Except that night didn't change my life. I changed it. I have to stop acting like I have no control over these things. Like I'm letting them just happen to me. These are my choices. For better or worse.

Hannah Harrington

#52. In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

James Baldwin

#53. If you have Hope for a needed change ... Faith that it will happen someday & Courage to stand against all adversity and make it happen ... You have the dire tools to change the world!

Timothy Pina

#54. The key thing to keep in mind is that people do change, but they do it in their own time, for their own reasons. That's why you can hope for change, you can encourage change, you can communicate that you want change, but there are never any guarantees that it will happen.

John Hawkins

#55. It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

Douglas Coupland

#56. For change to occur in us, we must be willing to enter the wilderness of the unknown and to wander in unfamiliar territory, directionless and often in the darkness....We do not need to keep every little thing under control. In fact, we find ourselves only by allowing some falling apart to happen.

Maureen Brady

#57. I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

Brittany Murphy

#58. What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn't happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.

Guy Finley

#59. The number one element on the list for changing and improving one's lifestyle is definitely in the area of health for most people. Good health paves the way for even more awesomeness to happen all-the-way-around.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#60. I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

Eric Schlosser

#61. I've often said that great things can happen to you and for you, but if it doesn't happen in you, then the way you view yourself won't change.

Maria Durso

#62. The greater the difficulty of the change, the greater the need for enchantment. Factors that cause friction include expense, risk, and "politics." If a change is a big deal, then it's a big deal to make it happen.

Guy Kawasaki

#63. Without a movement pressing for change, there's little hope. We've got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The physics and chemistry are daunting. The resources on the other side are very large.

Bill McKibben

#64. Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.

Nick Clegg

#65. Change will never happen if you lack the ability and courage to see yourself for who you really are.

Bryant McGill

#66. Politics was put in front of me. I do politics because it's the vehicle for change and because I happen to be good at it ... I had this sort of calm fearlessness, that some would call foolishness.

David Mixner

#67. If you choose the right people for the group, it goes a little bit differently. At the same time, you can't always predict what's going to happen. Success might change people.

Paul Wall

#68. The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.

Augusten Burroughs