Change quotes

“We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.” Serj Tankian

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” Marilyn Monroe

“I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.” Marilyn Monroe

“People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.” Eminem

“I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.” Eminem

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” Winston Churchill

“I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.” John Lennon

“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.” Sai Baba

“In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.” Christina Aguilera

“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” Niels Bohr

“When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.” George Washington Bush

“I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.” George Washington Bush

“People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.” George Washington Bush

“One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.” Julius Caesar

“It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.” Hillary Clinton

“If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.” Hillary Clinton

“The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.” Hillary Clinton

“I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.” Hillary Clinton

“In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.” Hillary Clinton

“Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.” Hillary Clinton

“Dynamism is a function of change.” Hillary Clinton

“On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.” Hillary Clinton

“I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.” Bob Dylan

“I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.” Bob Dylan

“I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.” Bob Dylan

“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.” Clint Eastwood

“If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.” Clint Eastwood

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.” Ella Baker