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Quotes About Change

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
~ Bill Gates
Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.
~ Wim Wenders
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
~ Edmund Burke
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
~ Martin Amis
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
~ Charles Darwin
If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
~ Karl Popper
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
~ Emma Goldman
The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
~ Oscar de la Renta
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
~ John Boehner
I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
~ Billy Wilder
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
~ Doris Lessing
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
~ Johan Huizinga
We may not be able to do any great thing; but if each of us will do something, however small it may be, a good deal will be accomplised for God.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
~ Calvin Coolidge
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
~ Jesse Jackson
The great thing about change, is that it absolutely, positively, always means things are going to get even better. Even when you don't know how.
~ Mike Dooley
The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.
~ Rosario Dawson
Can't repeat the past?…Why of course you can!
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The critics don't build great cities
~ Federico Pena
I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
~ Guy Kawasaki