Top 100 Quotes About The Ability To Change
#1. I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.
Jodi Picoult
#2. It's for us to take care of the air we breathe and the water we drink. And I do believe we have an impact on that, and we do have the ability to change it if we make the decision to.
Scott Kelly
#3. After all, everything in here is just pieces of paper with words and lines on them. They're not even very valuable.
Pieces of paper with words and lines on them have the ability to change the world ... They always have.
Elizabeth Camden
#5. You have the ability to change or create anything in your life, starting now.
Hal Elrod
#6. I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.
Seth Godin
#7. The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
Michael Porter
#8. Our potential is so great that we have the ability to change our lives, our surroundings and the global world with just an idea
Bruce Budden
#9. The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
Mo Udall
#10. But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul.
Julie Gregory
#11. Albert Einstein said, "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
John Englander
#12. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Stephen Covey
#13. Art has the ability to change minds. Passion is what changes the world. When both collide, it's as powerful as a bomb. Art isn't pretty and poised fluff. Art is brutal and snarling. Artists growl. This is the roar of change that beats within them. - 8/29/11
A.H. Scott
#14. Do you believe that we have the ability to change destiny?
Michelle Madow
#15. That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth
but without malice. Loving candour is the secret of friendship.
Erica Jong
#16. The lion's share of the problems that really bother us don't call for additional technology, theory, philosophy, or data (we're up to our necks in that); instead, the problems call for the ability to change what people do. And when it comes to this particular skill, demand far exceeds supply. Given
Kerry Patterson
#17. I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not
so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.
Roger Zelazny
#18. For what do you hunger, Lord?" Moneo ventured.
"For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?"
"You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind.
Frank Herbert
#19. Success is the ability to change some one's perception of life.
Zeeshan Raza
#20. With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.
Garry Kasparov
#21. There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.
Philip Hammond
#22. Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings.
Frederick Lenz
#23. That is all God wants from us! To be happy. Go, create, laugh, love, and above all, be happy! No matter what anyone tells you, you have the ability to change your world! Make it a great place to live in! God loves you! Exactly the way that you are!
Kenneth Griffin Jr.
#24. When you feel scared, hold someone's hand and look into their eyes. And when you feel brave, do the same thing. You are all here because you are smart. And you are brave. And if you add kindness and the ability to change a tire, you almost make up the perfect person.
Amy Poehler
#25. Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.
Marla Gibbs
#26. The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.
Frank Herbert
#27. I have knowledge; I'm responsible. If I sit by and do nothing while I have the ability to change, to help, then I'm just as much a criminal as any. Power begets responsibility...You should know that.
Brandon R. Chinn
#28. God gives us the sun and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Everyday, we try to pretend that we havent perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist- that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow.
Paulo Coelho
#29. The biggest superpower you can have is the ability to change your own life. It's in your hands, and if you believe that you can get the power you want, you can do whatever you wish to do.
Hrithik Roshan
#30. Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.
Nick Cave
#31. Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.
Goldie Hawn
#32. Post-traumatic stress is a powerful force with the ability to change us. Even the strongest of us.
Simon Wood
#33. Tenacity, in some an admirable quality, is no substitute for the ability to change, for what in one age might be considered tenacious in another would most certainly be called cowardly.
Michael Blumlein
#34. Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.
Katharine Jefferts Schori
#35. As you get older, the ability to change becomes a very rare thing. You'll see.
Andersen Prunty
#36. We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are.
Dillon Burroughs
#37. The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. - ALBERT EINSTEIN
James Rollins
#38. The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor
#39. It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.
James O'Shaughnessy
#40. A level 4 leader's greatest asset is his ability to engage, empower, and equip his people; this is what creates the momentum for a significant change in the organization. He invests 80% in his people and 20% in the process.
Farshad Asl
#41. The best antidote to stress is resilience ... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.
Lauren Mackler
#42. I think every person has the ability to affect change ... through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world.
Adam Yauch
#43. 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
#44. I am not a believer of the law of attraction (though I do not deny the possibilities of it to be true), but I firmly believe in the ability of making choices, the ability to take conscious decisions.
Namrata Kumari
#45. The ability to identify someone at a moment's notice by snapping a photo of him or her, to trigger an immediate influx of data about the person behind the face, will forever change the world.
Jan Chipchase
#46. It wasn't as if the flowers themselves held within them the ability to bring an abstract definition into physical reality. Instead, it seemed that ... expecting change, and the very belief in the possibility instigated a transformation.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#47. Players know that they can trust me which is really important. They know that I had the ability to adapt to change, and they have seen that many times over the years. I think these are important parts of being in control of footballers.
Alex Ferguson
#48. I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.
Kathleen Norris
#49. Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)
Seymour Simon
#50. How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity.
Barbara Pym
#52. True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.
Barack Obama
#53. I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.
Serj Tankian
#54. Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way.
Victoria Justice
#55. An individual's state of consciousness (awareness) simply means his ability to accept change in his life. It includes new thoughts and new feelings, and the new behavior and actions that will naturally come as a result.
Harold Klemp
#56. Reality rarely changes; only our perspective of it. The means to change our surroundings depends on our own ability to shift perspectives.
Chip St. Clair
#57. The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.
A.J. Darkholme
#58. Science has proven that sin has the power to change us for the worse. In a healthy brain, rational thought can override impulsive behavior. Not so in a brain affected by addiction. This is how Satan steals our ability to choose wisely. Addiction costs us the ability to exercise our agency.
Toni Sorenson
#59. Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.
Tory Burch
#60. Choose Your Corner, Pick Away At It Carefully, Intensely, & To The Best Of Your Ability, & That Way, You Might change The World.
Charles Eames
#61. We choose how we'll look at things. We retain the ability to inject perspective into a situation. We can't change the obstacles themselves - that part of the equation is set - but the power of perspective can change how the obstacles appear.
Ryan Holiday
#62. Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.
Benjamin Franklin
#63. Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
Ann Landers
#65. Like the word hope, we often think of power as negative. It's not. The best definition of power comes from Martin Luther King Jr. He described power as the ability to effect change.
Brene Brown
#66. The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is its ability to change their behavior in the ordinary round of daily life. Judged by that test, I know no religion that has a moral claim upon the allegiance of men.
Harold Laski
#67. Change will never happen if you lack the ability and courage to see yourself for who you really are.
Bryant McGill
#68. Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.
Alison Gopnik
#69. One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.
Tom Robbins
#70. I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story.
Asghar Farhadi
#71. A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.
Edwin Booth
#72. To all of the young people out there who are creating social change or even fomenting social movements: hold on to your idealism and your belief in your ability to change the world. Your lofty goals demand attention and deserve support.
Lynn Schusterman
#73. The Atonement is real. As you steadily do the things the Lord would have you do, a change will occur in you, and Satan's ability to lead you into the things that will destroy you and bring misery to you will become lessened.
Henry B. Eyring
#74. The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure.
Lofty Wiseman
#75. But everything changes. To deny change is to deny life. And the present moment contains miracles. Including an ability to see and receive the new.
Brooke Berman
#76. The ability to see the future does not require sight just Vision and Passion to embrace Change for a better American future.-12-05-2013
Michael E. McKinzy Sr.
#77. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.
Og Mandino
#78. You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want. It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!
Barack Obama
#79. Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make.
Jim Brown
#80. Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.
Paul G. Stoltz
#81. Grace is the ability to accept change. Be open and supple; the brittle break.
Ethan Hawke
#82. We need a stronger national voice for social workers which leads to a change in how the profession is viewed and its ability to represent itself to other professional bodies and with central government.
Andy Sawford
#83. I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.
Ian Somerhalder
#84. Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to the next level.
Roopleen
#85. Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.
Richard Burr
#86. Leadership is not a voice crying in the wilderness, aloof and apart. It requires an ability to command as well as to inspire, to learn in the process of collaboration and to build a team with a common purpose that can take action and execute the change they envision.
Bob Rae
#87. Bowie is probably my favorite all-around songwriter and performer and personality. His ability to change over the years is such an inspiration. I love 'Young Americans' and 'Fame.'
Scott Weiland
#89. Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
Bryant H. McGill
#90. Character wasn't about perfection. It was about wisdom and the ability to learn and change. If
Aleatha Romig
#91. Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.
Charles Garfield
#92. The pace of change is so great, there is always something else going on. What that says to me is that you have to have strategic vision and peripheral vision. Strategic vision is the ability to look ahead and peripheral vision is the ability to look around, and both are important.
Carly Fiorina
#93. Science is actually, I think, a very creative venture. It requires thinking outside of the box. It requires an ability to be open to new experiences and an ability to change course in the middle, try a different path, or go about things in a new way.
Cara Santa Maria
#94. We cannot love 'our people' unless we love each of us ourselves, unless I love each piece of myself, those I wish to keep and those I wish to change - for survival is the ability to encompass difference, to encompass change without destruction.
Audre Lorde
#95. Wells-Barnett's experience with the ways that lynching victims were criminalized, and her progressive belief in the ability of persons to change for the better, gave her another perspective.
Paula J. Giddings
#96. Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
Nolan Ryan
#97. Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#98. We stand in the bathroom and look at our face and say, "Stop getting old, face. I command you!" and it doesn't listen. Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.
Amy Poehler
#99. Self Change is a 'RESPONSIBILITY' upon us ! It is not something that comes from outside of us.The realisations, the acceptance, the efforts, the thought, the actions ....all lead to change! It is our ABILITY to RESPOND to the 'Change' needed!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#100. Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see. It is the blueprint for our reality, which can change with a single, positive thought. All it takes is faith, if you're open to it
Masaru Emoto
