In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

Revolutions go not backward.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

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

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

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.

Change in all things is sweet.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.