Change Quotes

The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred.

~ Truman Doctrine

Change can only take place if we desire the change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Fight all you want, but you will never win. You can change a system only by being part of that system, by being part of the change.

~ Anand Neelakantan

The hunger for change is the desire to make a change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Change can only take place, if we desire for change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Utopia confronts reality not with a measured assessment of the possibilities of change but with the demand for change. 'This is the way the world should be.' It refuses to accept current definitions of the possible because it knows these to be part of the reality that it seeks to change... Wilde was right: 'A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at.

~ Krishan Kumar

If this were a courageous country,it would ask Gloria to lead itsince she is sane and funny and beautiful and smartand the National Leaders we've always hadare not.When I listen to her talk about women's rightschildren's rightsmen's rightsI think of the long line of Americans who should have been president, but weren't.Imagine Crazy Horse as president. Sojourner Truth.John Brown. Harriet Tubman. Black Elk or Geronimo.Imagine President Martin Luther King confrontingthe youthful Oppie Oppenheimer. Imagine PresidentMalcolm X going after the Klan. Imagine President StevieWonder dealing with the Truly Needy.Imagine President Shirley Chisholm, Ron Dellums, orSweet Honey in the Rockdealing with Anything.It is imagining to make us weep with frustration,as we languish under real estate dealers, killers, and bad actors.

~ Alice Walker

Having the understanding of God, God’s ambassadors are able to bring a country out of crisis, change politics, business and economy

~ Sunday Adelaja

To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. Sometimes one person inspires a movement, or her words do decades later, sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do; sometimes those millions are stirred by the same outrage or the same ideal, and change comes upon us like a change of weather. All that these transformations have in common is that they begin in the imagination, in hope.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Just because there is change around us does not mean there has to be change within us.

~ Toni Sorenson

We've got to escape from narrowness. We're a movement, not a conspiracy. We've got to radiate contacts, and have as many people aware of us as possible. That's living, modern common sense.

~ H.g. Wells

Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us. Nobody can control that. Nobody can control the environment, the economy, luck, or the moods of others. Compositions change. Positions change. Dispositions change. Experiences change. Opportunities and attitudes change. You will change.

~ Suzy Kassem

You can't change your life. What you can change is YOUR APPROACH.

~ Tapan Ghosh

Life has me trapped in a cocoon of earth where I must grow and change until the day I sprout wings. And on that day I shall burst free, no longer marooned on a pebble of dust in a universe that only waits for me to find a means to fly.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You will realize your life is most peaceful when you actually stop caring or worrying about things and situations you can not change.

~ Hopal Green

It's not about being educated, it's about being civilised.

~ Deepak Madhu Nair

Nature is never static. It is always changing. Everything is in a constant state of flux. Nothing endures. Everything is in the process of either coming into being or expiring.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Nothing remains idle and thrives. Life needs a moving force to prevent the devastating effects of stagnancy. That is why life employs change.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Be thankful to those painful moments of your life, because that has what shaped you to become who you are now.

~ Pradeepa Pandiyan

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

~ Eve Ensler

Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Working with women is such a rewarding experience because as you interact with them, you realize that although they face various struggles, women have one goal, to see the world change for the better.

~ Gugu Mona

Women who don’t like the rules change the rules.

~ Toni Sorenson

Intuition is a woman’s gift that comes packaged in responsibility. If we don’t change the world for good, who will?

~ Toni Sorenson

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

~ Rob Siltanen

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

~ John Green

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

~ Terry Pratchett

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

~ Albert Einstein

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You can't stop the futureYou can't rewind the pastThe only way to learn the secret...is to press play.

~ Jay Asher

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions, they cease to be mind.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

~ Kiran Desai

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

~ George Bernard Shaw

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

~ Libba Bray

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

~ Neil Gaiman

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

~ Mother Teresa

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

~ J.d. Salinger

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

~ William Jennings Bryan