Why Change Quotes:

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

- Barack Obama

source: June Jordan, “Poem For South African Women”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Presidential

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

- Confucius

topic: Life, Change, Clever, Managing Change, Some People Never Change

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Important Work, Social Good

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Change, Powerful, Times Have Changed, Time And Change

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Happiness, Making A Difference In The World, Times Have Changed

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Inspirational, Change, Wisdom, Social Development, Social Good

we are the ones we have been waiting for

- Alice Walker

source: Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

topic: Confidence, Waiting, African American, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Presidential

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.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Life, Change, Wisdom, Learn To Fly, Jolly

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Eggs, Ordinary, Goes On, Learn To Fly, Why Change

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Social Power, Social Studies

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

- June Jordan

topic: Waiting, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Change, Inspirational Presidential, Time And Change

Why change the world? Change worlds!

- Henry Miller

source: Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.190, New Directions Publishing

topic: Art, Philosophy, History, Why Change

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

- William S. Burroughs

source: Interview with Allen Ginsberg, sensitiveskinmagazine.com. March 1992.

topic: Order, Ideas, Lunch, Why Change, Printer

A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?

- Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

source: "This Porsche is still driven". Interview with John O'Dell, articles.latimes.com. November 6, 2002.

topic: Eye, Design, Grandfather, Porsche, Why Change

I grew up with the idea that once you found yourself with your clothes, why change?

- Nicolas Ghesquiere

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Ideas, Clothes, Grew Up, Why Change

The functionaries of public power rarely strengthen in their dispositions to abridge it, and an unorganized call for timely amendment is not likely to prevail against an organized opposition to it. We are always told that things are going on well; Why change them? 'Chi sta bene, no si mueve,' said the Italian, 'let him who stands well, stand still.' This is true; and I verily believe they would go on well with us under an absolute monarch, while our present character remains, of order, industry and love of peace, and restrained as he would be, by the proper spirit of the people.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.209, Cambridge University Press

topic: Believe, Character, Italian, Why Change, Timely

I'm happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club's in a really good position right now.

- Frank Lampard

topic: Sports, Clubs, Position, Why Change

I'm pretty much right on schedule. Start off slow, finish up strong. I don't know why everyone panics. I've been doing this for ten years now. Why change?

- Albert Belle

topic: Strong, Years, Schedules, Why Change

I just don't think America wants a female host. It's like men don't walk around in skirts in this country. Why change a good thing?

- Vanna White

topic: Country, Men, Thinking, Why Change

That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.

- Cab Calloway

topic: Country, Nobody Knows, Company, Why Change

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Inspiring, People, Style, Why Change

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

- Helena Bonham Carter

topic: Growing Up, Nice, Moving, Why Change