Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

If you want change, you have to offer change.

History is full of changings of the guard—some for the better, some for the worse.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives

Every new time will give its law.

We’ve already decided to change. The question is: In which direction do we change, and from where do we start?

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

Change is the very fabric of our time.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

But times do change and move continually.

I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

I love to watch times change!

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.