Quotes about change

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“The foreign policy of England should be to maintain peace, not only for herself but between the powers of the world. This should be her policy, not only because she can have no interest in a change of the state of possession of the several powers...but because she has the most extensive commercial relations depending upon peace with each and all the powers of the world, the interruption of which must be injurious to her prosperity.”

“Nothing is impossible. We need to dream, we need to be creative, and we all need to have an adventure in order to create miracles in the darkest of times. And whether it's about climate change or eradicating poverty or giving back to future generations what we've taken for granted, it's about adventure. And who knows, maybe there will be underwater cities, and maybe some of you will become the future aquanauts.”

“I can understand that people get overwhelmed very quickly when you start to talk about an enormous issue like climate change. But I suggest they just choose one change and implement that in their lives, such as deciding not to eat bluefin tuna or shrimp anymore because it’s unsustainable. Then when that becomes simply part of your life, chose something else to implement. Make informed choices and make them part of your everyday life and don’t assume others are doing it for you.”

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”

“Be the change that you want to see in the world.”

“We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.”

“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”

“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.”

“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

“To change ones life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions.”

“There is nothing permanent except change.”

“We must become the change we want to see.”

“You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.”

“By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.”

“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”

“Loss is nothing else but change,and change is Natures delight.”

“Thats the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.”

“You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.”

“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”

“I am already seeing the crisis reformatting into some artistic statements, there will be plays, maybe films. Definitely theatrical performances. As strange as it sounds, I think that these difficult times have changed arts people, especially in theater and film, who were never fond of social subjects and always tried to keep their distance. And now they jumped right into it because of this difficult situation. And I think there will be only more of that.”

“Changing the world for the better always comes with pain, with fatigue, with some heavy-hearted feeling of unfairness, with this unbreakable wall. But, as it turns out, there is always a flashlight that will sparkle at some point behind this dark spell, and you just walk towards this light hoping that you can peck a hole in that wall and squeeze your way through it.”

“My attitude towards death has changed a lot in recent years. I can easily accept my own death - it is not difficult. It's hard to lose someone.”

“When you come that close to not being here, or being told they are going to take your foot off, it changes everything in your life.”

“It is because the spirit knows deep down that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else. And in that small distance, lives are changed.”

“My philosophy was very much to embrace yourself and love what you are, instead of making you something you're not. Refine what you already have - don't change it at its core. That's always been my whole ethos.”

“You need to study history, Doctor. All great changes are based on pain and destruction.”

“And even if this causes major changes in our world, we have nothing to lose, because by opening the door that unites body and soul, what we will gain is total love.”

“The Unwanted Visitor visits those who don’t change and those who do. But those who did change can say: 'My life was an interesting one. I didn’t squander my blessing.’”

“Generals are usually a conservative force who can be relied on to oppose social change.”

“Scientific theories can always be improved and are improved. That is one of the glories of science. It is the authoritarian view of the Universe that is frozen in stone and cannot be changed, so that once it is wrong, it is wrong forever.”

“[S]cience has so changed its nature over... human history that no definition could be made to fit.”

“I’m not a politician, even though I play-act one when the boss tells me to—I’m allowed to change my mind when my understanding of the facts changes.”

“Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult.”

“Don't try to change the world, find something that you love
And do it every day
Do that for the rest of your life
And eventually, the world will change”

“You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.”

“You can not change what has been, but you can feel good "Here and now", if you do everything for a better future.”

“Who knows how to give true love belongs exclusively to that rarity of living beings, capable of changing the world.”

“An intense sentimental disappointment causes a character change, in which fear takes on a fundamental role.”

“What happens today, Is a better change tomorrow.

Life is a circle which starts from a point 0 degree (the day your given birth to) and revolves in it's axis (around); people determine where they will end up. The question is do people lifes end up good?”

“It is more easy changing someones life status, than changing someones character.”

“The professional player in me came out. The button changed from off to on, and I saw the difference between playing for fun and playing to win. You have to choose whether to have fun or whether to compete.”

“Real and major changes in religious or political power systems do not occur until substantial numbers of people realize the old systems are destructive, genocidal and beyond repair.”

“I thought that if I changed the things I did, it could help me play at a higher level for longer. I knew I could not expect immediate results. I did it because I had to try. I knew if I started at the top level a little later, I could be there for longer.”

“During my childhood, the inscription «tourist» accompanied the picture, where a person in sneakers with a backpack climbs the mountains. Now under a similar comment — a beachgoers: sunglasses, a sun lounger under a palm tree near the azure waters of the ocean. Everything flows, everything changes.”

“The rhythm of music, akin to the human heart-beat and to the ceaseless change and motion, which is the basic fact in all life, apeals at once to our own physical vitality.”

“It is fundamentally important that people immediately feel the changes in the country, and people will feel it. We will not give empty promises, the key to our success is professionalism, experience, hard work, discipline and love for the country.”

“Sometimes, friendship may change the world.”

“Bizarrely, as immigration began to change Europe at its economic and cultural core, the political vocabulary remained the same as when immigration had been a fringe phenomenon. People kept talking about restaurants.”

“I had been making dramas for some time and suddenly I wanted to change, I wanted to have new feelings.”

“The college must educate for a changing world ... about which we know only that it will be different from anything of which we have now had experience.”

“It takes less effort to stream a film at home these days. However, streaming should not fundamentally affect how a film is made, as long as the pleasure of watching films doesn’t change, and we as filmmakers continue to serve that purpose.”

“We all need stories. What happens in our daily lives changes our stories.”

“General relativity has changed our understanding of space and time. ...The spacetime of general relativity ...is likely to be just a classical approximation that loses its meaning in the quantum theory, for the same reason the trajectory of a particle does.”

“Few would have predicted that the discovery of the circulation of the blood would have changed the way philosophers view the world, theologians conceive of God, or astronomers look at the stars, yet all of that happened.”

“It's obvious that things are changing. When I was in high school and told people I was a socialist, they looked at me as if I were crazy. When I tell people I'm a socialist today, they just nod and go about their day - not a hint of revulsion.”

“In an era of a global economy, we can't survive without foreign investment. We must change our attitude toward foreign investment. We should welcome it.”

“We reject a political philosophy asserting that economic reforms can be launched over and against society, above people's heads - one that pushes democratic change aside.”

“I tried repeatedly to change and undergo a 'curative treatment' to no avail. I got to the conclusion that this is me, accepted myself, and moved on.”

“We cannot change the past to rewrite a better beginning - But we can work for the future and strive for a better ending.”

“Over the ages, if we had had a more open attitude to knowledge, to change of consciousness, to change of perception of the possibilities of life and the nature of the reality in which we live, people like Galileo or Copernicus would have had altogether easier lives.”

“Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.”

“People change just in a blink! You won’t get any explanation for that. They change in front of your eyes or behind of your eyes. Just they change unconditionally.”

“The methods of coping with crime have no doubt undergone several changes, but mainly in a theoretic sense. In practice, society has retained the primitive motive in dealing with the offender; that is, revenge.”

“We don't need to remake our health-care system or rebuild it from the ground up. We don't need to do very much. It's pretty simple, quite attainable. Just an added perspective and a change of pace.”

“My basic ideas have not changed. I see no reason to change them.”

“The past is therefore a permanent dimension of the human consciousness, an inevitable component of the institutions, values and other patterns of human society. The problem for historians is to analyse the nature of this 'sense of the past' in society and to trace its changes and transformations.”

“If I could talk face to face with the pilot who dropped the bomb, I could tell him we cannot change history. But we should try to do good things for the present and for the future to promote peace.”

“I like to participate in these kinds of things, so hopefully, we can change one life to motivate a kid to stimulate them to study in science and engineering.”

“And is there no war on today? It is the weapons that have changed, that's all. Instead of an axe or scythe or scimitar, they fight with roubles.”

“The partners were there; gravity was calling the changes, and the cosmic dance was ready to begin.”

“I've come to understand that the Bible was a great story well crafted, written and promoted to change human beings -Edy kasawuli”

“Twenty years ago, we all found in different ways, in different places, but all at the same moment, that our lives would be changed forever.”

“Lately, I'm shedding my
snakeskin
You know I've been
changing
for you lately
It's time to make a fresh start
It's time to make a fresh start”

“If we're meant to be together,
change the way you see the weather
Live for now, forget forever”

“Depending on what you believe in life, you are capable of achieving anything without changing your body somehow.”

“It would be deemed sinful of you to refuse to change even though you know that you are completely wrong.”

“Not being under the mercy of someone else. That’s what I call true change in life!”

“We must be ready to change our circumstances by changing our mindsets and sometimes, our environments.”

“All the facts are so stubborn. They don't accept change. It is reaching the level of the ignorant or pretending to know everything.”

“Everything seems possible during childhood, but things start to change as we age and face the realities of the universe.”

“For humans, dead or alive, change cannot be avoided.”

“God does not change, which is why He is considered the Absolute. Anything that changes can't be you too, including the mind.”

“I can't identify myself as the body, simply because the cells keeps changing every single day.”

“The caterpillar achieves its full freedom and potential by transforming into a butterfly. This is the real beauty of change.”

“The change in mood is the result of not maintaining a good balance in the body. Malnutrition often causes the body to malfunction.”

“I think any time you have an ensemble of actors, everyone’s objectives are unique and individual. So it’s hard for me to collectively say whether they were allies in this…. I do know that the way things got spun by the end changed my relationships with them.”

“If the life of one girl changes through education, she changes three families – one, her own, second the in which she gets married into, and third the one she builds. This moves the nation on its path to progress.”

“Your life is hard to change. But at the same time, I've also always felt that I'm the same person now as I was at five, so I've been sort of reaching out to that too, in a way.”

“The consistency of my body has changed and I quite like that. Everything has gone softer and gentler, and my ease with how I look is powerful—what I consider beautiful really helps me to grow old.”

“We have to change the situation. Everybody is closing his country against the neighbor. We have to open these frontiers to each other and live in one community, one fraternity of people. This is the meaning of Christian life, this the meaning of our religion.”

“3 Habits That Changed My Life
My daily reading habit makes my thinking better. Habit of daily exercise keeps me fit.
Habit of never giving up in life make me confident.”

“We have to continue to tell our stories. And if we change one mind, it’s one mind that we changed and I’m happy with that.”

“The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is a great force leading to change.”

“We need to change the meat, because we aren’t going to change human nature.”

“Revealing the truth to the public requires layers of checking and multiple source verification. Good journalism can safeguard interests and foster changes of rules.”

“To remake meat is how we solve climate change. Remaking meat is how we prevent the next pandemic. Remaking meat is how we take antibiotics out of the food system.”

“Maitreya says 'To get rid of war is not so difficult. It's really very simple. You just have to have a change of heart. That's all. You just have to change your heart.' Send it out to be cleaned...dry cleaned heart... you have to look at life differently. You have to look at your self differently to understand what we're here, what we're here for, why we're in incarnation at all....”