Change Quotes

The boundaries of this world are forever shifting – from day to night, joy to sorrow, love to hate, and from life itself to death; and who can say at what moment we may suddenly cross over the border, from one state of existence to another, like heat applied to some flammable substance? I have been given my own ever-changing margins, across which I move, continually and hungrily, like a migrating animal. Now civilized, now untamed; now responsive to decency and human concern, now viciously attuned to the darkest of desires.

~ Michael Cox

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

~ Tamora Pierce

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

~ Seth Godin

The example could encourage others who only fear to start.

~ José Rizal

Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world.

~ Ericka Huggins

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

~ Joseph Heller

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

~ Daniel H. Wilson

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.

~ Ann Brashares

The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.

~ A.s. King

Change is the end of something you know and the beginning of something else that you don't know. Something new that holds opportunities.

~ Kholoud Yasser

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

~ Jeanette Winterson

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of

~ Nina Hagen

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men's lives are not progressions, as conventionally rendered in history paintings, nor are they a series of facts that may be enumerated & in their proper order understood. Rather they are a series of transformations, some immediate & shocking, some so slow as to be imperceptible, yet so complete & horrifying that at the end of his life a man may search his memory in vain for a moment of correspondence between his self in his dotage & him in his youth.

~ Richard Flanagan

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

~ David F. Jakielo

For a moment we're both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be.

~ Emily Henry

Change--savor the cool, fresh flavor of it.

~ Nora Roberts

After all, Paul Robeson said, ‘Artists are the radical voice of civilization.’ Each and every one of you in this room, with your gifts and your power and your skills, could perhaps change the way in which our global humanity mistrusts itself. Perhaps we as artists and as visionaries, for what’s better in the human heart and the human soul, could influence citizens everywhere in the world to see the better side of who and what we are as a species.

~ Harry Belafonte

It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their own lives, that everything in our world changed for good.

~ Dana Reinhardt

I don't know how to change and I'm not sure I want to.

~ Jordan Dane

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

~ B.f. Skinner

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

~ David H. Hackworth

Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.

~ Jim Rogers

Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

~ Barbara Samuel

You jeopardize all if move slowly on a fast lane.

~ Toba Beta

We shall change all that...because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what has to be changed.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Things are embarrassing, best to avoid them. But since your death I prefer a naturalist style of conversation. Let's strip it down to what matters. Let's have emotions and beliefs on show without the modest covering of small talk.

~ Rosamund Lupton

The old resists the new one.'Change hurts' is the reason.

~ Toba Beta

If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Olivia had changed so much since then. She had changed in ways she would never have been able to anticipate. She had become the kind of person who was barely able to get out of bed in the morning without buckling beneath the tidal pull of the planets.

~ Kevin Brockmeier

Things yet unknown will change the way you think.

~ Toba Beta

We can't be afraid to change. You may fell secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know there is a such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, maybe the very reason you don't have something better.

~ C. Joybell C.

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.

~ Deborah Day

What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.

~ Julien Smith

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.

~ Wallace Stegner

I had discovered something; there was a pleasure in becoming something new. You could will yourself into a fresh shape. Now all I had to do was figure out how to do it out there, in my life.

~ Claire Dederer

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

~ Ernst Jünger

If all the Christians- I mean all of 'em- got outta the pews on Sundays and into the streets, we'd shut the city down.We'd shut down hunger.We'd shut down loneliness.We'd shut down the notion that there is any such of a thing as a person that don't deserve a kind word and a second chance.

~ Ron Hall

… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy

~ Philip Levine