Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry.

Roland Gift

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.

Susan Rice

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Griffin

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

Stuart Wilde

When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a few individuals have the strength and the power to walk away from the restrictions of the world and to stand fearlessly beyond it, eventually, in some distant millennium, all mankind will also come to that same liberation.

Stuart Wilde

If you can't change everything all at once, then at least work on changing something each day. Become aggressive in your battle with the ego. You probably don't need all the things that it wants. You need hope, discipline, creative expression, love, and serenity-these are the important things. Remember, when you are balanced, one stepping stone will lead you to the next. But you will rarely see the whole journey or all the answers at once.

Stokely Carmichael

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

Steve Jobs

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers…..

Steve Jobs

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Rebecca Solnit

What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.

Samuel Johnson

Change is not made without inconvenience.

Samuel Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Robert Jordan

What can't be changed must be endured.

Rodney Dangerfield

They change the sheets every day... from one bed to another.

Robert M. Pirsig

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Robert Evans

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

Steve Schmidt

There are change elections and there are 'more of the same' elections, and there was a lot of economic anxiety in the 1992 election and (Bill Clinton) was able to drive a change narrative. after eight years of Barack Obama, it's very difficult to understand what kind of change it is that Hillary Clinton's candidacy could represent.

Stephen Covey

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Stephen Covey

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Stephen Covey

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen Covey

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Stephen Covey

We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.

Stephen Covey

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Stephen Covey

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

Stephen Covey

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

Viktor E. Frankl

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Vanilla Ice

You can't please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that's what it should be about. That's why I didn't change my name or anything. It's not about the name; it's about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it's very true. And now I'm just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself.

Vachel Lindsay

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

Sutton Foster

I am okay that has changed and I have some more wrinkles and my body is changing.

Sophie Kinsella

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.

Sophocles

The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.

Stephen King

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.