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  • Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change. -- Max Carver
  • Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments. -- Peter Garrett
  • Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action. -- Malcolm Fraser
  • The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures. -- Ian Somerhalder
  • I believe that all students, when asked to be accountable for their actions and to be socially aware citizens, will become agents for change! -- Erin Gruwell
  • I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star. -- Jackie Chan
  • I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action. -- Howard Schultz
  • The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action. -- Michael Franti
  • Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. -- Maxwell Maltz
  • Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action. -- Joe Bob Briggs
  • As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens. -- Michelle Bachelet
  • We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change. -- Hans Rosling
  • Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. -- Bruce Barton
  • I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing. -- Taylor Hanson
  • I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine. -- Zachary Quinto
  • For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice. -- Adam Braun
  • If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism. -- Malcolm Turnbull
  • I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds. -- Action Bronson
  • Vision with action can change the world. -- J. A. Baker
  • Change is an action not just an epiphany! -- Garrison Wynn
  • Logic won't change an emotion but action will. -- Zig Ziglar
  • Words may inspire but only action creates change. -- Simon Sinek
  • The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change. -- Allen Wheelis
  • an individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change. -- Jack Johnson
  • Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. -- Ingrid Bengis
  • Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer. -- Dalai Lama
  • Change quotes were meant to move us from inaction to action. -- Jon Jones
  • If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier. -- Peter McWilliams
  • Every change begins with a vision and a decision to take action. -- David Bornstein
  • Change your thought, change your mind.Change your belief, change your action. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Your next action could change the world, so make it a good one. -- A. J. Jacobs
  • The path to big, systemic change is collective action. That takes Sister Courage. -- Gloria Feldt
  • When you truly desire change, your conscious mind chooses the positive, new action. -- Marshall Sylver
  • We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change. -- Newt Gingrich
  • Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action. -- Stella Young
  • It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives. -- William P. Young
  • We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
  • In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action. -- Brian Tracy
  • I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone. -- Charles Van Doren
  • The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action. -- Harold Bridgwood Walker
  • Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action. -- William Blum
  • [Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change. -- Jane Mayer
  • Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws. -- Cynthia Payne
  • Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God. -- Chuck Smith
  • Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled. -- Christine Lagarde
  • I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better. -- Michael Franti
  • The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind. -- Toni Morrison
  • I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things. -- Gabriel Orozco
  • When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future. -- Zig Ziglar
  • There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now. -- Nicholas Stern
  • Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action. -- Wallace D. Wattles
  • To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything. -- Nick Vujicic
  • No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. -- Emma Goldman
  • When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change. -- Rosa Parks
  • We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action. -- Mark Udall
  • Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it. -- Ken Blanchard
  • Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world. -- John Gummer
  • The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. -- Hannah Arendt
  • Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world. -- Robin Hobb
  • In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us. -- Moshe Feldenkrais
  • What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent. -- John Paul Caponigro
  • Feel free to change. When you discover something true about yourself, put it in action regardless of who you were yesterday. -- Danielle LaPorte
  • What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change. -- David Miliband
  • Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress. -- George Santayana
  • Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action. -- William J. Clinton
  • I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is. -- Ralph Nader
  • Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. -- Joel A. Barker
  • I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future. -- David Pocock
  • Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes. -- Daisaku Ikeda
  • I believe that if something is troubling you, simply start from where you are and take the action necessary to change it. -- Susan Jeffers
  • Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward. -- Isaac Newton
  • Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is. -- Dale Jamieson
  • To make a change, you must be: willing to commit, willing to change, willing to have an open mind, and willing to take action! -- Tae Yun Kim
  • The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change. -- Warren G. Bennis
  • If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough. -- Audre Lorde
  • There is no better day than today to do the things you've been putting off. Take action; it's the only way to change your life! -- Hal Elrod
  • I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That - and no sleep! -- Jenna Dewan
  • American Action Network should be spending their money to try and get those Democrats to change the votes, not beating up on Republicans in the House. -- Mick Mulvaney
  • Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change. -- Peter Ackroyd
  • Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action...we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives -- Joan Ruddock
  • I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change. -- Li Bingbing
  • You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless. -- Caroline Myss
  • Action is only taken when one needs change. Change happens when action is needed to make a positive impact. Ones reaction to change is what determines the outcome. -- Lorenzo Victory
  • A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail. -- Plutarch
  • Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of these fields of attention. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • I am a person of action. If I see I can bring a positive change, I will go for it, never mind that something might be hard to achieve. -- Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Never be rigid on an action plan that always fails, freezes and frustrates. Perhaps what you need is a change of your methods you run with the peak velocity! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
  • Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is often answered through individual action. -- Margaret D. Klein
  • For our own past is covered by the currents of action,But the torment of others remains an experienceUnqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition.People change, and smile: but the agony abides." -- T. S. Eliot
  • If God gave you contentment then you would never pursue your life purpose. It is your restlessness that pushes you to take action, change your life and seek more of what you could possibly be. -- Shannon L. Alder
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