Change Quotes

Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change,' she said with a sigh.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Maybe if we focused on being light & less on the dark, we might actually see things change.

~ Michael M. Rose

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

~ Seth Godin

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Which came first: the change-ready company or the change-ready employee?

~ Lorii Myers

People learn when they are ready to learn. Are you ready?

~ Lorii Myers

To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change.

~ Lorii Myers

One age ends, and another begins. It is the way of things. But, it doesn't happen all at once.

~ Derek Donais

Ready how? Who's ever ready for anything important?

~ Julia Glass

Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out, unless of course it had a very short life cycle.

~ Lorii Myers

Why did someone fall in love with you because you were one thing, and then want you to be something else?

~ Tatjana Soli

...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia

~ E.l. Konigsburg

The world has changed from quality to quantity, and so have we.

~ Santosh Kalwar

I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are aware, react to change, and collectively have the long-term health of the host environment in mind. The mycelium stays in constant molecular communication with its environment, devising diverse enzymatic and chemical responses to complex challenges.

~ Paul Stamets

...give yourself permission to change your world and others around you, in a positive way, with love and respect.

~ Tasha Hoggatt

Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

~ Graham Joyce

I had a long talk with Bruce Springsteen on a rooftop during the Vote for Change tour (in 2004). And it boiled down to this: That guy you used to be, he’s still in the car. He’ll always be in the car. Just don’t let him drive. He might be shouting out directions. But whatever you do, don’t let him get behind the wheel.

~ Eddie Vedder

Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)

~ Seymour Simon

Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Sometimes it's possible, just barely possible, to imagine a version of this world different from the existing one, a world in which there is true justice, heroic honesty, a clear perception possessed by each individual about how to treat all the others. Sometimes I swear I could see it, glittering in the pavement, glowing between the words in a stranger's sentence, a green, impossible vision--the world as it was meant to be, like a mist around the world as it is.

~ Ben H. Winters

The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.

~ Theodore J. Kaczynski

Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young, healthy forest.

~ William Golding

An airport is a potent place, a point of reunions and departures. For the traveler, it's a crossroads at the moment of decision, a flashpoint that separates intention from retreat.

~ Ginger Bensman

The same process that makes AA so effective—the power of a group to teach individuals how to believe—happens whenever people come together to help one another change. Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.

~ Charles Duhigg

Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do....implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.

~ Douglas B. Reeves

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.

~ Howard Zinn

At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic momentsgo unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.

~ Paulo Coelho

I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

You cant rely on anybody being around for you, because things change.

~ Kirsty Eagar

I think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever.

~ Neil Gaiman

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

~ Nicholas Sparks

The world is inviolable: it has no beginning and no end. Those who seek to change it will be changed.

~ Malinda Lo

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

~ Tom Stoppard

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

~ Theodore Dalrymple

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.

~ Nancy Sleeth

So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also werent friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didnt make any sence if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. Thats where the sadness came in.

~ Lauren Myracle

Do you always try to upset the world as much as possible? Clare asked.He gave her a surprised look. Of course. Otherwise how does anything change?

~ Sam Starbuck

Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be.

~ Simon Van Booy

It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before

~ Gertrude Stein

Not only are poor, unemployed, less will-educated and non-white people more likely to become depressed, but they are also least likely to benefit from treatment by either antidepressants or psychotherapy. That is why combating depression requires more than merely providing effective treatment for those who are already suffering from it. We also need the change the social conditions - such a racism, unemployment, poverty, unaffordable housing, and lack of adequate education - that put people at increased risk of becoming depressed.

~ Irving Kirsch