Change and Transformation Quotes

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

"A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that's revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change."

"Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you."

"No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to."

"People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look."

"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."

"A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind."

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."

"Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus."

"Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut."

"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."

"I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help."

"In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first."

"In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'"

"Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change."

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."

"The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will attain high office. By land and sea, he will be feared."

"We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on."

"When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change."

"When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership."

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."

"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune."

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration."

"As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look."

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

"Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk."

"For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."

"I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration."

"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."

"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."

"I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good."

"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience."

"Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money."

"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."

"Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?"

"People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad."

"Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning."

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

"Throughout the western world, new systems have risen up whose job is to constantly record and monitor the present - and then compare that to the recorded past. The aim is to discover patterns, coincidences and correlations, and from that, find ways of stopping change. Keeping things the same."

"Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life."

"You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change."

"But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul."

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

"Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."