Quotes about Change

We wanted to prove to everybody that we weren't the same old Tessa and Scott, trying to do the same tricks again. We wanted to be different.

My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.

Gone must be the days of only pointing fingers at others to fix what they may never fix. Our nation's ills are not merely the result of corruption or racism, although these are evil. Our troubles can also be traced directly to ineffective Christians.

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.

We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

God wants to change us so much that it intrigues others.

Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.