Change Quotes

You can't start the change unless dare to be different.

~ Toba Beta

But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

~ Mark Haddon

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

~ Brené Brown

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were, you are not yet where you will get, you are nowhere exactly.

~ Lionel Shriver

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why? She studied him, her eyes grave. Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

~ Stephen King

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

~ Mitch Albom

That’s when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they’re over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once.

~ Lauren Oliver

I hate change more than almost anything.

~ Jenny Han

That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it’s not really true. It’s like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart.

~ Lauren Oliver

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.

~ Swami Vivekananda

...things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life.

~ Lesley Kagen

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.

~ Robert C. Gallagher

The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.

~ Christopher Moore

People say we can't do anything about the way the world is; they say it's set in stone. I say it looks like stone, but it's mostly paint and cardboard.

~ Katherine Rundell

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

~ Vera Nazarian

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.

~ Hafiz

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

~ Rohinton Mistry

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.

~ Ann Voskamp

Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

~ Neil Gaiman

If you truly believe in something that is totally rejected by others, then you've just made a difference.

~ Toba Beta

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

~ Sherwood Smith

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.

~ Natalie Wood

Change can be weird or even queer. But change has to happen for things to grow--for us to grow. And change isn't so bad when you're not in it alone.

~ P.c. Cast

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

~ Jodi Picoult

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

~ Jeanette Winterson

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

~ Robin Hobb

To experience what isn't, love what is.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible.

~ Dorothy Allison

A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent and knows the remedies is a vital community, and it will have to be reckoned with. I would rather go before the government with two people who have a competent understanding of an issue, and who therefore deserve a hearing, than with two thousand who are vaguely dissatisfied.But even the most articulate public protest is not enough. We don't live in the government or in institutions or in our public utterances and acts, and the environmental crisis has its roots in our lives. By the same token, environmental health will also be rooted in our lives. That is, I take it, simply a fact, and in the light of it we can see how superficial and foolish we would be to think that we could correct what is wrong merely by tinkering with the institutional machinery. The changes that are required are fundamental changes in the way we are living.

~ Wendell Berry

When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.

~ Audrey Mclaughlin

...things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention to the details. The devil is in the details.

~ Lesley Kagen

There is never only one, of anyone

~ Margaret Atwood

Never be complacent about the current steps; don't agree and follow the status quo. Be determined that you are making an indelible impact with great change. Now, dress up and go to make it happen!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.

~ Samuel R. Delany

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

~ Aldous Huxley

Perhaps that is where our choice lies -- in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.

~ Elana K. Arnold

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.

~ Mandy Hale