When you're finished changing, you're finished.
- Ben Franklin


As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Be the change that you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi


We must become the change we want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi


You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.
- Newt Gingrich


I changed. People change.
- Michael Jackson


Every generation needs a new revolution.
- Thomas Jefferson


I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe


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
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I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
- Barack Obama
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Change has come to America.
- Barack Obama
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America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past.
- Barack Obama
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No matter what the outcome is, we have to keep our eyes on the bigger picture. We need some kind of change. We can't cut off our noses to spite our faces.
- Michelle Obama


I mean, people are serious about moving this country in a different direction. And that makes me feel good to know that, you know, I'm not alone in my frustration.
- Michelle Obama


Millions of Americans who know that Barack understands their dreams; that Barack will fight for people like them; and that Barack will finally bring the change we need.
- Michelle Obama


The point is that Barack, like any leader, is human. And, you know, our challenges in this country isn't finding the next person who's gonna deliver us from our own evil. Because our challenges are us. The challenges that this country faces is how are we as individuals in this society gonna change? What are we gonna do differently?
- Michelle Obama


When you're really trying to make serious change, you don't want people to get caught up in emotion because change isn't emotion. Because change isn't emotion. Its real work and organization and strategy.. that's just the truth of it. I mean, you pull people in with inspiration, but then you have to roll up your sleeves and you've got to make sacrifices and you have got to have structure.
- Michelle Obama


Barack and I have been in the public eye for many years now, and we've developed a thick skin along the way. When you're out campaigning, there will always be criticism. I just take it in stride, and at the end of the day, I know that it comes with the territory.
- Michelle Obama


All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
- Ronald Reagan


No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
- Robin Williams