Quotes About Change

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

We are what circumstances make of us

When we learn something, we can change our own life. When we teach something, we can change another's life—but when we teach people to teach, we can change the world.

OUR LEGACIES Every footprint that we take Makes a change where we have passed. Small things there beneath our heel Are changing where the print was cast. What then could any difference make When ruthless paths our courses take? Beneath our heel some things will bend Without the strength to rise again. Joye Kanelakos

Change is inevitable. Whether you think it is positive or negative, you are right.

True and lasting motivation can't, unfortunately, come from outside. It must arise from a very deep place within us. This life-changing motivation verily forces its way out of us, demanding that we take action. That is the motivation that propels people to monumental acts of courage, willpower, perseverance, and, ultimately, change.

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

My nature just changes.

Castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually.

And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.