Change Quotes

If you don't like something don't protest from a far. Work within it to change it. Otherwise, you'll just be one voice of many rather than a trusted voice of influence.

~ Isabella Poretsis

Who we are is who we ACTUALLY are. It's never who we create in order for people to see. You might really hate who you actually are, so then you create a sub-genus type of yourself for other people to see. But that never changes who you are. The sub-genus type won't change your genus. The only way we change who we are is by looking at ourselves in the mirror long enough to make us vomit over our disgusting waywardness and long enough to fall in love with our strengths. But you can't just fall in love with your strengths. You also need to vomit over your hypocrisies and all of your other bullshit. And you can't just vomit, either. You also have to clean it up and embrace yourself afterwards. This is how you change your genus.

~ C. Joybell C.

Humans are funny. The more someone doesn’t want someone, the more that someone wants that someone. The time came when she started pulling away. She had developed a tendency to focus on the things that she didn’t respect in him and eventually that’s all she saw.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Wherever man did not settle, the world was not owned.It was not wanted.In time of course this was bound to change, for there is never enough it seems.

~ Ross Turner

Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.

~ Cheryl Strayed

If ever we find the truth to be offensive, then we must be prepared to change what is true.

~ Duane Hewitt

People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who’s on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it’s alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

~ Joseph Campbell

Every time you overcome a difficult challenge you will have a story and that story is what changes lives.

~ Farshad Asl

Life is a circle. It spins you around.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Excellence does not come from believing in excellence, but from constant change, challenge, and improvement.

~ Jeffrey Fry

She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches she waits she learns, and in the second she blinks, she changes her mind just like that.

~ Anthony Liccione

Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

~ Alex George

The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating on a mat. It happens in the throes of conflict—when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends and impatient with your parents, when you were rude to your teachers and didn’t stand up for strangers, that guilt is marvellous. It proves that you are human, that you want to be better. Thank this guilt for teaching you, for making you aware. And now endeavour to better yourself. It is a lifelong work to become the person we want to be.

~ Kamand Kojouri

... To be in time means to change.

~ C.s. Lewis

But if we do not like the person we have learned to be, should we just sit in front of our fufu, doing nothing? I think, James, that maybe it is possible to make a new way.

~ Yaa Gyasi

As long as [man] does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance... Wallow in it... Write a book about it; that is often an excellent way of sterilising the seeds which [Heavenly Father] plants in a human soul... Do anything but act. No amount of piety in his imagination and affections will harm [the cause of evil] if [it is kept] out of his will... The more often he feels without acting, the less he will ever be able to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

~ C.s. Lewis

Your thought determines your mood and to a great extent, your mood determines your thought, though sometimes it is hard to determine someone’s thought by the mood of the person! When the mind changes, something changes! When the mind changes, the face changes! Change your mind and see!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

This poem was meant to be unwritten. But I am writing it now and have thereby changed destiny.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Or we'll go that way. Or we'll walk on the highways now, and we'll have time to putthings into ourselves. And some day, after it sets in us a long time, it'll come out ofour hands and our mouths. And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will beright. We'll just start walking today and see the world and the way the world walksaround and talks, the way it really looks. I want to see everything now. And whilenone of it will be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather together inside and it'llbe me. Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me,out there beyond my face and the only way to really touch it is to put it where it'sfinally me, where it's in the blood, where it pumps around a thousand times tenthousand a day. I get hold of it so it'll never run off. I'll hold on to the world tight someday. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

~ Ray Bradbury

But I don't like it, okay? I don't like how everything is changing. It's like when you're a kid, you think that things like the holidays are meant to show you how things always stay the same, how you have the same celebration year after year, and that's why it's so special. But the older you get, the more you realize that, yes, there are all these things that link you to the past, and you're using the same words and singing the same songs that have always been there for you, but each time, things have shifted, and you have to deal with that shift. Because maybe you don't notice it every single day. Maybe it's only on days like today that you notice it a lot. And I know I'm supposed to be able to deal with that, but I'm not sure I can deal with that.--David Levithan (p. 201 in galley)

~ David Levithan

Everything happens, some get hurt maybe a fairy tale of damage but nature can't be change. We just walk away with memories that carries a story being made after as history.

~ Aloysius Jnr

A step from the past always demands a step in the mind backed by a robust action. The very place you fall is the very place you make the first move to move.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Nothing was ever normal again.Many lives change like that -- all of a sudden, and forever.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

If elections could change anything, they would have already made them forbidden.

~ Unknown

Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above.

~ Philip Yancey

Since we aim for a healthy life for all, we should teach young girls that their worth can't be validated by dating older rich men, because that is risky for their health. Until we change certain perceptions in society, we will keep fighting the same battles.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

Your thought determines your mood and to a great extent, your mood determines your thought, though sometimes it is hard to determine someone’s thought by the mood of the person! When the mind changes, something change! When the mind changes, the face changes! Change your mind and see!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

the person you’ve always wanted to be. Some days your heart will be in it, and some days you’ll fake it, but eventually it will become a habit and without thinking about it, you will be changed anew. A new attitude. A new outlook. A new perspective. The human mind is a wonderful thing to grant us that kind of change.

~ Kim Holden

As you spend time with the King of kings and the Lord of lords, His attitude becomes your attitude.

~ Andrew Wommack

Change is the part of the very definition of life. The world changes, and flourishing demands constant growth and life-long learning.

~ Paul Gibbons

Towards these weeks of rain I give effusive praise. Let me always be reminded that there is time for change.

~ Taylor Patton

You only can get out of your challenges by changing yourself. Change comes from within...A greater passion, a greater commitment and a greater life. You can begin today.

~ Farshad Asl

Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change the way you think.

~ Craig Groeschel

We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

~ Chuck Wendig

It means something, but it doesn't change anything.

~ C.m. Stunich

Eternal life truly begins the moment you’re born again. It’s a present tense—not future tense—reality. If you’re a believer, eternal life is now!

~ Andrew Wommack

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.

~ Samuel Johnson

If we understand how the brain works, we can understand how to work it.

~ Toni Sorenson