I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is or is not believed by a majority of the people.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure the process is its own reward.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.

Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.

The bass player's function along with the drums is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

In day-to-day commerce television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Contrary to general belief I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best they are merely the people who got there first.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

Art is only a means to life to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way something which is overlooked not only by the public but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre everything is so advertised so trailed that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.