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" My moms always told me, 'How long you gonna play the victim?' I can say I'm mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself. "

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" Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery. "

" Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" Crisis creates leverage to change. "

" You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change. "

" My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others. "

" Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong. "

N. R. Narayana Murthy

" Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you. "

" If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding. "

" For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. "

" By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies or the future may bring, science fiction can do what Dickens and Sinclair did: make real the consequences of social injustice or human folly. "

" Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. "

" Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. "

" We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order. "

S. Truett Cathy

" There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. "

" As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me. "

John C. Maxwell

" I wouldn't change myself for anybody. I am who I am; people accept me, or they don't. I have my strengths and my weaknesses, which I can try to improve upon, of course. I'm still not the finished product. "

" I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway. "

Sophie Kinsella

" I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. "

" I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear. "

" Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too. "

Lawrence Kudlow

" I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.' "

" No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. "

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission. "

" What's dangerous is not to evolve. "

" Does the prospect of seeing the Great Commission of Christ fulfilled drive you day and night? If not, then I pray that the story of my life will light a fire in you. A fire that will change everything. A holy fire that will convince you that nothing is impossible with God. "

Reinhard Bonnke

" In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport. "

" For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism. "

" Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies. "

Indigenous People