Change quotes

“I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.” Henry Rollins

“I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.” Henry Rollins

“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.” Bill Gates

“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.” Bill Gates

“This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.” Bill Gates

“Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.” Bill Gates

“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.” Bill Gates

“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.” Milton Friedman

“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.” Marlene Dietrich

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Wayne Dyer

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” Wayne Dyer

“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.” Richard Dawkins

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin

“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.” Bertrand Russell

“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” Simone de Beauvoir

“It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.” David Bowie

“You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.” Steven Spielberg

“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.” John Steinbeck

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

“I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.” Michael Jordan

“Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.” George Harrison

“Some people change when they think they're a star or something.” Paris Hilton

“The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.” Donald Trump

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol

“Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?” Andy Warhol

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” Oprah Winfrey

“These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.” Virginia Woolf

“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Alan Watts