Change Quotes

Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.

~ Taylor Swift

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fashion changes, but style endures.

~ Coco Chanel

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

~ Aldous Huxley

You can walk away and say We don't need this. but something in your eyes says We can beat this.

~ Taylor Swift

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

~ Andy Warhol

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

~ Sophocles

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they couldn't all day long but that never works.

~ Sarah Ockler

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.Or you don't.

~ Stephen King

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

~ Brené Brown

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

~ Bryce Courtenay

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

~ Socrates

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

~ Patricia Briggs

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.

~ Sue Grafton

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

We are the change we have been waiting for.

~ Barack Obama

Change is the end result of all true learning.

~ Leo Buscaglia

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

~ William James

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

~ Thomas L. Friedman

This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you're clinging to and start over, whether because you've outgrown it or because it's not working anymore, or because it was wrong for you in the first place.

~ Kelly Cutrone

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

~ Rob Siltanen

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

~ Nicholas Sparks

We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

~ Michael Ende

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

~ Barack Obama

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor, he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

~ George Bernard Shaw

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

~ H.g. Wells

You should never make fun of something that a person can't change about themselves.

~ Phil Lester

See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

~ A.s. King

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

~ Susan Sontag

Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

~ John Dryden