Real Change Quotes

#1. Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.

Seth Godin

#2. Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

John Edgar Wideman

#3. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

Irin Carmon

#4. Suddenly, without any real change in her, she ceased to be beautiful. She looked merely like a woman who would have been dangerous a hundred years ago, and twenty years ago daring, but who today was just Grade B Hollywood.

Raymond Chandler

#5. When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.

Halle Berry

#6. The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

Arthur Smith

#7. If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade ... a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two-dimensional; they're easy to absorb.

William J. Clinton

#8. Now more than ever, America needs an agenda for real change.

Rick Larsen

#9. If we want to see real change in our world, it begins with us all on an individual basis.

Dionna L. Hayden

#10. To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.

Twyla Tharp

#11. For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.

Debbie Ford

#12. 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

#13. But a real vision, a real change, isn't safe," Maya said. "You don't pay a workshop fee for it, you pay with your life.

Starhawk

#14. Some things are unchangeably wild, others are stolidly tame. The tiger is wild, and the coyote, and the owl. I am tame, you are tame. There are wild things that have been altered, but only into a semblance of tameness, it is no real change. But the dog lives in both worlds.

Mary Oliver

#15. Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.

Anthony De Mello

#16. Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

James Baldwin

#17. You think of me as a ... living stone - hard and cold. That's true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There's no going back ...

Stephenie Meyer

#18. Real change isn't measured with words, it is measured with real achievements.

Mitt Romney

#19. If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.

Larry Crabb

#20. Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change

Michelle Obama

#21. Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

Geneen Roth

#22. Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in harmony with nature and with each other and save us from the devastating effects of environmental destruction and climate change

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#23. It is only a mere fallacy to say you are quitting when your heartbeat is in tune with the beat. A real change is a real change!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#24. It is about time to see within us a real change and let it happen as we have made before we start.

Auliq Ice

#25. Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

William Ames

#26. Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

Debbie Ford

#27. My measure of success is to walk into a restaurant and hear a table debating drug policy. Once the public start the conversation, the politicians will join - that is when we can create real change.

Sam Branson

#28. Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

Scilla Elworthy

#29. Together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.

Rigoberta Menchu

#30. In an interview with Univision, President Obama said if there's one thing he's learned, it's that you can't change Washington from within. So what is he saying - that if we want real change, we should throw him out?

Jay Leno

#31. 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

#32. Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

Sheryl Sandberg

#33. The American people understand that we need real change in this country, in my view, a political revolution, which says to the people on top, "You know what, you guys can't have it all."

Bernie Sanders

#34. Left, Right. Steady effort. This is familiar. Most accomplishment is like this . . . Not the result of decisive actions, or moments of truth.

No, persistence is the source of the best of what we do, of real change. Even, single-minded persistence.

Paul Chadwick

#35. As long as he denies his own agency, real change is unlikely because his attention will be directed toward changing his environment rather than himself.

Irvin D. Yalom

#36. It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises

Jonathon Porritt

#37. Style doesn't change every month or every year. It only changes as often as there is a real change in the point of view and lives of the people for whom it is produced.

Elizabeth Hawes

#38. Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

Dalai Lama

#39. Only when you have a changeless sense of who you are,can real change take place.

Ilchi Lee

#40. Real change rarely comes from the front of the line. It happens from the middle or even the back. Real change happens when someone who cares steps up and takes what feels like a risk. People follow because they want to, not because you can order them to.

Seth Godin

#41. In other words, nourishing internal culture must precede expanding outside influence. Real change is inside-out.

Will Mancini

#42. I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.

Michelle Obama

#43. Candor generates trust. Trust is the basis on which real change, constructive change, is made.

Joe Biden

#44. Humans have learned to split the atom. Instead of killing ten or twenty people with a wooden club, one person can now kill a million just by pushing a button. Is that real change?

Eckhart Tolle

#45. Real change requires you to change your behavior-not just your attitude.

Phil Stutz

#46. Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.

Nicholas Negroponte

#47. No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.

Subhas Chandra Bose

#48. The rest of the Third World people are seeing, that the country can make a real change. No changing or trading one master for another. The only real change would be to socialize the means of production and this is what's happening in Jamaica.

Huey Newton

#49. Real change will come when you focus on yourself - not on changing him, Real change comes when you are willing and able to state your claim on what you are and are not willing to live with. Just remember to let him in on it

Dory Hollander

#50. I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person - you are a different person. It's superficial change that can lead to real change.

Greg Behrendt

#51. There is always the possibility that people will change. Real change is more rare. You are who you are at a certain age in life you are pretty much a variation of that your whole life. It?s conceivable that you will change but it's not likely.

Woody Allen

#52. Because one thing she's learned through all this is that if a new beginning is really new; it will feel like a crisis. Any real change should make you feel, at first, afraid;

Nathan Hill

#53. Any real change should make you feel, at first, afraid. If

Nathan Hill

#54. Real change does not and cannot come independently of the gospel, which is the good news that even though we're more defective and lost than we ever imagined, we can be more accepted and loved than we ever dared hope, because Jesus Christ lived, died, and rose again for sinners like you and

Tullian Tchividjian

#55. Upheavals come only when man is set on some particular way of life, and is called to forgo that. When the fixed desire is to do the Father's Will, then there is no real change. The leaving of home, town, country is but as the putting off a garment that has served its useful purpose.

A.J. Russell

#56. People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change.

Bill Bradley

#57. If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.

Nick Hanauer

#58. I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.

Jodi Kantor

#59. If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

Howard Zinn

#60. The key to real change lies not in implementing a new process, but in getting people to hold one another accountable to the process.

Kerry Patterson

#61. ..reading your ex's horoscope every week isn't going to help you control his life. No, you need to hide in his bushes, break into his email, or kidnap his dog if you want to effect any real change.

Jenny Mollen

#62. Real change, eternal change, is when your actions are meant to draw you closer to your Lord. The first act of genuine turning is recognizing that what you have done on your own, what you are capable of doing, is not enough. The second act is acknowledging who you are turning toward.

Davis Bunn

#63. You can't hate yourself happy, You can't criticize yourself thin, You can't shame yourself wealthy. Real change begins with self-love and self care.

Jessica Ortner

#64. I've found, however, that real change only comes when we let go of the struggle, when we stop trying, and that the greatest key to healing our vision is also the simplest one: expanding our awareness.

Jacob Liberman

#65. Real change, the kind we have not seen in decades, is only going to come from outside the system. And it's only going to come from a man who's spent his entire life doing what others said could not be done. My father is a fighter.

Ivanka Trump

#66. The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

Nikki Haley

#67. I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.

Malala Yousafzai

#68. I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

Temple Grandin

#69. What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.

Elizabeth Warren

#70. Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.

Cheryl Strayed

#71. Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

Jack Welch

#72. Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change.

Paul Hawken

#73. Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

Bernie Sanders

#74. You have no shot at experiencing real change in life if you're habitually protecting your image, hyping your spiritual brand, and putting out the vibe that you're a lot more unfazed by temptation than the reality you know and live would suggest.

Matt Chandler

#75. There need not be, there would not be, any real change in our designs, only in our means." '"Saruman," I said, "I have heard speeches of this kind before, but only in the mouths of emissaries sent from Mordor to deceive the ignorant. I

J.R.R. Tolkien

#76. Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

Guy Finley

#77. Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion is a fiction

Charles Spurgeon

#78. Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.

Lindy West

#79. The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

James MacGregor Burns

#80. Nobody ... likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions, of people to die.

Rowan Williams

#81. The message is resonating, not just in Wisconsin, but all over America, the people are sick and tired of establishment politics, establishment economics. They want real change.

Bernie Sanders

#82. The digital detox isn't what you think it is. It's like a diet. Once you go on it, you feel better until you log into social media again. If you want real change, figure out what works best for your lifestyle.

J.R. Rim

#83. All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask ... : What can I do that is different?

Debbie Ford

#84. I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.

Nelson Mandela

#85. The youth are the catalysts for real change.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#86. As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change.

Rhys Ifans

#87. Well, my opinion is that real change occurs through deep interpersonal experiences. Others will also say deep spiritual experiences.

Drew Pinsky

#88. No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

Guy Finley

#89. For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

Isabel Allende

#90. What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change.

Kevin Allen

#91. Most REAL change is slow. Happiness and joy are the purpose of life. If we know that the future will be very dark or painful, then we lose our determination to live. Therefore, life is something based on hope.

Dalai Lama

#92. I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.

Lawrence Lessig

#93. We cannot learn something new and stick to it without a modular approach to application, positive reinforcement and a real change of environment.

David Amerland

#94. Being real is being true to you.

David W. Earle

#95. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.

Jonathan Tropper

#96. I will never, never be the same.
I have seen stars.
Real stars.

Beth Revis

#97. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Alan Alda

#98. I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on.

Joshilyn Jackson

#99. yet that one thing - the color of their skin - would, in the real world, change everything. Sarai

Laini Taylor

#100. No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.

David O. McKay