Change Things Quotes

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman

Change, Leadership, Men

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
Henry Rollins

Change, Blood, Necessary

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

Change, Else, Everybody

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson

Change, Time, Courage

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.
Arthur Scargill

Change, Important, Understand

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
Julie Walters

Change, Ocean, Drop

I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.
Maria Sharapova

Love, Change, Night

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.
Helena Bonham Carter

Change, Fight, Feeling

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.
Sydney Schanberg

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
Michael Phelps

Change, Successful, Everything

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
Jonathan Kozol

Change, Done, Write

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
Ice Cube

Change, Music, Career

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.
Roland Gift

Change, Money, Car

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
Vera Farmiga

Change, Women, Happen

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.
Sarah Zettel

Life, Change, Mother

You do have to change things as warfare changes.
Charles Schumer

Change, Changes, Warfare

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.
Evo Morales

Change, Impossible, Resistance

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Change, Politics, Long

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.
Judi Dench

Change, Control, Chance

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.
Evo Morales

Change, Finance, Conscience

It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough.
Kathleen Turner

Change, Good, Hard

When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
Adam Ant

Change, Work, Money

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.
Kristin Davis

Change, Hard, Mothers

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.
Don Cheadle

Change, Real, Before

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.
Wolfgang Puck

Change, Successful, Someone

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
Susan George

Change, Human, Suffering

Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.
Judd Apatow

Change, Hard, Win

There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things.
Asghar Farhadi

Change, Live, Try

The point of the essay is to change things.
Edward Tufte

Change, Point, Essay

It's not going to be easy to change things.
Daniel Berrigan

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