Quotes about Change

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.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don't settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

If people can learn to hate they can learn to love.

We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

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

It was hard to tell how lasting these trends would be. I told myself it was the nature of democracies—including America's—to swing between periods of progressive change and conservative retrenchment.

It's like moving-in day on a college campus, except a large percentage of the people involved are middle-aged, in suits, and, along with you, charged with running the most powerful nation on earth.

Voting is the best revenge.

Justifying the past mattered less than planning what to do next.

The thing about getting old, Bar," Toot had told me, "is that you're the same person inside." I remember her eyes studying me through her thick bifocals, as if to make sure I was paying attention. "You're trapped in this doggone contraption that starts falling apart. But it's still you. You understand?

Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?

If I aspired to lead the free world, I decided, I'd have to make climate change a priority of my campaign and my presidency.