Top 100 If You Don't Change Quotes

#1. Thank you Jonah."
He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't sting.
"For what?" he whispers.
" For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million.

Katie McGarry

#2. If you don't use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have had the tantalising prospect of change for the better placed in front of you.

Robin Hoyle

#3. Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Elon Musk

#4. If what you are doing is working, DON'T change just to be different. Just get better.

Jack White

#5. You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of yourminds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.

Thomas Huxley

#6. If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.

Lee Strobel

#7. Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.

Malcolm X

#8. I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Mark Knopfler

#9. If you don't want to change, you are left in the back.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

Elizabeth Warren

#11. I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.

Wendy Davis

#12. You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

Carlos Ghosn

#13. We think of color as a thing that we're receiving. And if you go into one of the Skyspaces, you can see that it's possible to change the color of the sky. Now, I obviously don't change the color of the sky, but I changed the context of vision.

James Turrell

#14. So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life.

Tony Robbins

#15. There's nothing wrong with seeing. If you see a "bad future", just change it, is all. Things'll turn out okay, as long as you don't give up!

Sakura Tsukuba

#16. you're unable to make someone change his views, recognize that he is a child, and clap as he does. Or if you don't care to act in such a way, you have only to keep quiet.

Epictetus

#17. Never opt for change simply to leave something you don't like. Change works best when you go toward something, even if it is the unknown.

Simon Sinek

#18. You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this..then there's something wrong with me. -Luke Brandon

Sophie Kinsella

#19. If I'm to change my life for you, I've got to have some hope."
"I don't want you to change your life for me. You'll have to make the same decision every day, over and over - it must be for yourself alone.

Lisa Kleypas

#20. If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.

Ines De La Fressange

#21. Life. It's your birthday present. Open it up and play with it. Act like you like it. (The One who gave it to you is watching, after all. Don't want to hurt his feelings.) And if you don't like your life, CHANGE IT. It is all yours.

Jill Conner Browne

#22. If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

Leo Buscaglia

#23. Mel rolled her eyes. "You can't live your life based on 'what-ifs,' Liv. And change is inevitable. It's the one thing you can always count on. Stop worrying about what might or not happen and follow your heart. How can you expect to ever be happy if you don't?

Alicia Kobishop

#24. If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

Dean Rusk

#25. If you don't allow yourself to change from book to book - take chances - it turns into a dullish job with no health benefits or pension plan and only intermittent paychecks.

Daniel Woodrell

#26. So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it.

Charlaine Harris

#27. If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.

Douglas Coupland

#28. I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

Eve Plumb

#29. If you don't like the way you are headed, change direction. Go inside. Search your place of inner wisdom. See what this calls on you to do. Then do it.

Neale Donald Walsch

#30. The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic
to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.

Edward Albee

#31. If you don't have a narrative, just make one up. You can always change it when you have more clarity. Any narrative beats no narrative. - L. R. W. Lee

L.R.W. Lee

#32. With success, if you don't plan and just take each day as it comes, there will come failure.

Auliq Ice

#33. I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#34. If you don't change the road you're travelling on, you'll probably end up where you're going.'" Mohammed

Kathy Cuddihy

#35. I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve ... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

Harrison Birtwistle

#36. If you have a sense of the rates of change of stocks, you don't expect things to happen faster than they can happen. You don't give up too soon.

Donella H. Meadows

#37. 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

#38. I swear to God I can't remember when I had a handbag. I know for some woman it's like an eleventh finger and you don't even think about it, even if you change every day. But I can't remember the handbag either. Who can run with a handbag?

Marlon James

#39. If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading ...

John C. Maxwell

#40. I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

Julie Walters

#41. Change is inevitable. If you don't seek it out, it will seek you out.

J.S.B. Morse

#42. If you'd rather not answer, you don't have to," Miles offered. "I'm sure it wouldn't change my impression of him, anyway."
"And what impression is that?"
"I don't like him."
Sarah laughed. "Why do you say that?"
"Because you don't like him."
"You're pretty perceptive.

Nicholas Sparks

#43. What if you're wrong? What if Norta is the beginning? The change the others need? You don't know where freedom leads.

Victoria Aveyard

#44. I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's an attraction about writing about a period that's over and isn't going to change colour while you look at it.

Tom Stoppard

#45. If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

John Gibbons

#46. If you don't change, you're dead or dead inside.

Glenn Beck

#47. Any change of my style, the way I've played for 10 years, will not be a drastic one. Yes, I've always given as good as I've got; as a forward you have to do that because, if you don't look after yourself, you might find yourself being thrown in a hole and buried.

Alan Shearer

#48. A large part of the people in Hollywood are sheep - and I don't say that unkindly, I say that politically - if Spielberg and Streisand and Geffen and the others were Republicans tomorrow, you would see a shortage of paper to try and change registrations.

Jerry Doyle

#49. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. - Maya Angelou

Aleatha Romig

#50. It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.

Zooey Deschanel

#51. If you do a yoga that does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would say, don't waste your time on it.

Jaggi Vasudev

#52. Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities

John C. Maxwell

#53. When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

Andy Warhol

#54. Life is far too precious to waste it complaining. If you don't like where you are change it ... it's just that simple.

Sanjo Jendayi

#55. My advice: If you every have the chance to change the world, don't hesitate. Leave your great big mark.

Shannon Hale

#56. If something is good, it's always good. You don't have to change it.

Tony Bennett

#57. It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

Coretta Scott King

#58. 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.

#59. I will be dictated to by nobody. I'm the man. And if anyone can prove me wrong, their chance is inside a boxing ring. You don't like it, change the station.

Tyson Fury

#60. If you want to be rich, be friends with people who have the same mindset as you, or who at least won't try to change your mindset to be more like theirs. Life is too short to spend time with people who don't help you move forward.

Robert Kiyosaki

#61. At 50, you probably get muddled?
I'm the same, that's how I know?
If you ever get lost, don't worry?
Just change where you want to go

John Walter Bratton

#62. Positive change is mobile, if you don't push it, it won't move but when you push it, it will definitely move with you.

Peter A. Preye

#63. You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.

Chris Hardwick

#64. If people talk about you, being jealous, critical, and trying to make you look bad, don't let that change you. You don't need their approval when you have God's approval.

Joel Osteen

#65. Remember:
It's all in your head ... all of it.
If you don't like the story, change it.
If the people around don't accept your new story; change them.

Steve Maraboli

#66. If you're trying to change someone you love, you don't love them. It's the oddnesses, the most unique imperfections that you'd miss the most. That's the stuff you can't replace. Everything else is easy to come by.

Crystal Woods

#67. If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world

Seth Godin

#68. If you don't like what's playing, change the channel.

Art Hochberg

#69. Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

Bill Blass

#70. 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

#71. I am what I am and I can't change it. I know how to cope and how to get by. I don't want or expect anyone to stand with me. I don't need anyone to. I've learned to accept my life just the way it is, and I don't give a damn if you or anyone else doesn't.

Nora Roberts

#72. I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#73. You lose nothing by being polite. The answer is 'No', but please say it politely and give the reasons ... Explain to me why 'No'. Don't change 'No' to 'Yes'. Don't be a fool. If there was a good reason why it is 'No', it must remain 'No', but the man must be told politely.

Mr. Lee

#74. I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.

Debra Winger

#75. Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions.
If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale.

Seth Godin

#76. What's the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don't change what's on the inside,were it really counts ?

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#77. If you buy chocolate with loose change the calories don't count.

Janet Evanovich

#78. If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish.

Lana Turner

#79. If you don't like your station in life, change it!

Jodie Cain Smith

#80. In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.

Jeff Raikes

#81. Don't let this anger ruin your life any more than it already has. If you want to every achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.

Kien Nguyen

#82. I would say that a wasted vote is voting for anybody you don't believe in. If you believe in the third party, that's the guy you need to voice for. That's how you change things.

Gary Johnson

#83. He held the door shut with his hand. "I'll stop fighting the second I graduate. I won't drink a single drop again. I'll give you the happy ever after, Pigeon. If you just believe in me, can do it."
"I don't want you to change."
"Then tell me what to do. Tell me and I'll do it," he pleaded.

Jamie McGuire

#84. If you don't like Scottish weather, wait 30 minutes, and it is likely to change.

Raymond Bonner

#85. Feeling bored is a childish attitude.
You wouldn't feel so if you don't rely
on somebody to change your feeling.

Toba Beta

#86. If you meditate deeply several times a day you will transform and change. You will find that you don't have to inspire yourself to do what is right because you have become what is right.

Frederick Lenz

#87. -That's kind of sad.
-I used to think so. Now I think: you're born a certain way. Later you get to decide how much you want to fight/change that. I don't mind being alone.
-You must mind. If you didn't you wouldn't be doing this with me.

Doug Dorst

#88. If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

Lori Lansens

#89. If you don't have passion, change.

Lauren Hutton

#90. That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our lives on the lines, you bastard!! If you don't have the courage to change things then you might as well just die!!!

Hiro Mashima

#91. If you will change everything will change for you. Don't wait for things to change. Change doesn't start out there, change starts within ... All change starts with you.

Jim Rohn

#92. On the whole," he continued, "I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it." We

Charlaine Harris

#93. Don't ask me to apologize for holding up a mirror. If you don't like what it's reflecting, take accountability and change it.

Steve Maraboli

#94. If you're lucky anough to be different don't ever change

Taylor Swift

#95. Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#96. If all of us carried a positive attitude, and we focused our efforts on striving for something positive in our own lives and in life all around us, everything would take a turn for the better. Yes, I really do believe that a positive mindset can change the world. Don't you?

Logan Seelye

#97. You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.

Timothy Keller

#98. You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.

Elizabeth Cadell

#99. Even if you don't believe in God and you're praying to the Universe, you're being honest with yourself. Putting your energy into the world shows that you are open to change, to learn, and to receive help.

Demi Lovato

#100. If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?

Yann Martel

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