Change Quotes

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

~ Bell Hooks

A change is as good as a rest.

~ Stephen King

To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date.

~ Marcel Proust

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

~ Kurt Lewin

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

~ Bell Hooks

Life Lesson 8: Change is always hard, but time softens the rough edges and eases the pull of the past. Eventually, we all climb out from under the bed, and even the most unfamiliar places begin to feel like home.

~ Patti Davis

God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.

~ Tess Gerritsen

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.

~ Graham Greene

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. .. Even in the Eternal City (Rome), says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

But wasn't that always the way. It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture.

~ Sarah Dessen

Sometimes, things need to change, because there just isn't any way for them to stay the same.

~ Jay Crownover

I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.

~ Lauren Oliver

But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.

~ Deb Caletti

Small changes can make huge destination differences.

~ Sean Covey

I always wondered if they’d change you.

~ Kiera Cass

In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life and vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.

~ Herbert Read

You can't change nature, son!Change IS nature, dad, the part we can influence. And it all starts when we decide.

~ Kitty Richards

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

~ Deepak Chopra

Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.

~ Libba Bray

Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.

~ Bell Hooks

What has been is no more. Change has come.

~ Dean Koontz

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

~ Richard Rohr

Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

~ Criss Jami

You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.

~ Christine Feehan

Belief is not subject to the will. Men think as they must. Children do not, and cannot, believe exactly as they were taught. They are not exactly like their parents. They differ in temperament, in experience, in capacity, in surroundings. And so there is a continual, though almost imperceptible change. There is development, conscious and unconscious growth, and by comparing long periods of time we find that the old has been almost abandoned, almost lost in the new.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

He gently kissed that scar and felt something changing inside him - just a flutter of change, there and gone, but leaving its mark.

~ Anne Bishop

Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is!

~ Jeffrey Gitomer

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

~ Vernor Vinge

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

~ Archimedes

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

~ Truman Capote

A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

It's a girl thing, trying to change ourselves as if we can change our lives too.

~ Cherise Sinclair

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

~ Margaret Mahy

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me.

~ Gayle Forman

Change is good but dollars are better.- Tara daniels

~ Jill Shalvis

Hypocrite shouts about the change,but never let risk coming on his way.

~ Toba Beta

No one can change a person, but a person can be the reason someone changes.

~ Shannon L. Alder