Change Quotes

The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.

~ Joe Abercrombie

The secret is to create the condition for change, a process that sometimes takes decades, and then use certain men as pivot points, a fulcrum to move history.

~ Robert Ferrigno

When you put on a new cloth that fits you well, you put on a new confidence that improves your confidence well

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A change of attitude is the one change that changes everything

~ Toni Sorenson

Nothing can change for them, because they themselves can't change anymore.

~ Michael Ende

Unless and until we change, we cannot grow. What’s life without growth?

~ Toni Sorenson

I just wonder… Isn’t it better to start as a monster and become a hero? Isn’t that what creates belief? The idea that someone can change?

~ F.d. Lee

When change loses its magic, then there really isn't anything left to live for.

~ Tommy Wallach

We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, energy or funds to support the production of mass media images that do not reflect life-enhancing values, that undermine a love ethic.

~ Bell Hooks

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

~ Gloria Steinem

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

~ Gloria Steinem

Society's collective fear of love must be faced if we are to lay claim to a love ethic that can inspire us and give us the courage to make necessary changes.

~ Bell Hooks

I am not seeing myself in your eyes, I think someone has replaced me

~ Zarak Shakeel

The Creator of all men and all things has provided the challenge of change, the necessity for acceptance, and variations of all patterns. We live by change, by struggle and the unexpected; for only in change, struggle, and the unexpected can we achieve growth.

~ Faith Baldwin

Everything is within your power,and your power is within you.

~ Janice Trachtman

Everything changed when I learned to honour my body instead of fighting it. When I learned to take care of it, like a precious castle to protect this weary heart. To stop harming it, punishing it for looking like this or that, feeling like this or that. I don't look like they all told me I had to do, but I'm healthy and strong and vital. That is enough.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don’t have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

~ Jodi Picoult

Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities.

~ Arthur Rimbaud

Personal experiences that disrupt stale routines result in the phenomena of cognitive dissiliency, jolting our minds and enhancing our ability to internalizing new information.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Why crawl like a caterpillar when you have the wings to be a butterfly?

~ Faraaz Kazi

Pain is essential for survival, pain is the tangible material that creeps into our mind and screams at us to recognize that something is terribly wrong.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked there before, and will walk there again. Then it occurs to me nothing is forever. No matter how bad or how good, everything passes and moves on to another level.

~ Nora Roberts

Art has the ability to change minds. Passion is what changes the world. When both collide, it's as powerful as a bomb. Art isn't pretty and poised fluff. Art is brutal and snarling. Artists growl. This is the roar of change that beats within them. - 8/29/11

~ A.h. Scott

[Based upon the message of nothing new under the sun in Ecclesiastes,] If nothing ever changes, then God has no plan.

~ Jennifer Michael Hecht

Change is inevitable and the ultimate way of life. Change creates new opportunities for new beauties in life.

~ Debasish Mridha

A vision should be attainable subject to current times and its ability to adapt to changing times.

~ Pearl Zhu

There should not be any excuse. If we don’t like our heritages, we've the power to change them for good. Let’s go beyond using lame excuses...

~ Assegid Habtewold

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.

~ Jodi Picoult

Sometimes a man does not accept life as given.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most poplar girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.

~ Jodi Picoult

If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.

~ Irwin Corey

You change for two reasons. Either you learn enough that you want to or you've been hurt enough that you have to.

~ Kate Mcgahan

I’ve always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes

~ Jennifer Niven

We are the product of our past. We start each day where we left off the day before. Changing the way we dress, where we work and live, or even changing a name does not alter our basic constitution. Transformation of the self requires a radical alteration in the way that we perceive the world and derive meaning.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas implementing change can establish internal harmony and instate joy in a person’s life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Curiosity—asking questions—isn’t just a way of understanding the world. It’s a way of changing it.

~ Brian Grazer

People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Our identity is like a kaleidoscope. With each turn we reset it not to a former or final state but to a new one that reflects the here-and-now positions of the pieces we have to work with. The design is always new because the shifts are continual. That is what makes kaleidoscopes, and us, so appealing and beautiful.

~ David Richo