Real Change Quotes

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

The attempt to make a distinction between recovery and reform is a narrowly conceived effort to substitute the appearance of reality for reality itself. When a man is convalescing from illness, wisdom dictates not only cure of the symptoms but also removal of their cause.

Change is incremental and real change, enduring change, occurs one step at a time.

I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

Now more than ever, America needs an agenda for real change.

We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the earmark that some real change is happening.

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable. Of course when you're a candidate's wife and when you're first lady and the first African-American first lady to boot, that is very, very hard to do.

You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.

If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.

We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who you need to be. Nobody ever does real transformation for fun. Nobody ever does it on a dare. You do it only when your back is so far against the wall that you have no choice anymore.

Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.

We’re not sent here to poll well. We’re here to make a difference.

I urge the senior members of the political system to form as broad a government as possible that would unite the moderate forces from the Left and Right so that we will be able to bring about real change in the State of Israel.

Our world desperately needs real leadership.

Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.

When it comes down to the devil in the detail of dealing with the issues... and making real change, Trump, you don't have it. You've never had it.

You had a majority of Americans saying that [Donald Trump] would take the country in the right direction or I think he would make real change, real change.

... together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.

A lot of people preach and talk, but I think the only way to preach is to actually do things.

For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.