Quotes About Change

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice

It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.

That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.

Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.

I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

The human worker will go the way of the horse.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.

The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?

As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future.

In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.

We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

I like to reinvent myself — it's part of my job.