Change Quotes

When I hear and see young men like you and Troit, who have turned their lives around, it makes me feel good. We need to learn to love one another; there is just too much hate in this world. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

~ Drexel Deal

Unless you are ready to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, you'll forever be in the control of things you can't give up.

~ Samuel Gyekye Mensah

Fill the world with acid rain clouds and you will be in a new era of evolution, due to the changed electromagnetic frequencies emissions and light emissions from the lightning clouds. A new era of global environmental radiation!

~ Steven Magee

Fear the lion, fear the crocodile, but fear most the one that puts on the inevitable wear called the human flesh.

~ Auliq Ice

Faith is the leverage we need to liberate us from the shackles of unbelief.

~ Auliq Ice

Today's temporary disappointment means tomorrows permanent appointment.

~ Auliq Ice

You can’t colour your world with someone’s paint.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It’s amazing how drastically your life can change when you stop accepting shit you hate.

~ Steve Maraboli

Wishes don’t change the world. Only actions will do that job.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene--a moment's forgetfulness suffice.

~ André Gide

I know there are days when we want to be liked by others a little more than we want to change the world. But, if we decided to speak up a little more and hesitate a little less, we will begin making ripples of change.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

When people ask me what it is that I want to achieve in life, I always tell them that I want to be able to make positive change in spite of all the issues that the world faces today.

~ Omar Al Busaidy

Whatever you have not strived hard to achieve will not strive hard to fade. Success built on hard work is the kind that lasts longer.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Christ died not so that you could freely go on sinning, and therefore, continue dying; He died rather so that you could freely grow in obedience, and therefore, start living.

~ Criss Jami

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

~ Paul Silway

I am well aware that certain exercises, tasks setup by the facilitator, can practically force the group to more of a here-and-now communication or more of a feeling level. There are leaders who do these very skillfully, and with good effect at the time. However, I am enough of a scientist-clinician to make many casual follow-up inquiries, and I know that frequently the lasting result of such procedures is not nearly as satisfying as the immediate effect. At it's best it may lead to discipleship (which I happen not to like): What a marvelous leader he is to have made me open up when I had no intention of doing it! It can also lead to a rejection of the whole experience. Why did I do those silly things he asked me to? At worst, it can make the person feel that his private self has been in some way violated, and he will be careful never to expose himself to a group again. From my experience I know that if I attempt to push a group to a deeper level it is not, in the long run, going to work.

~ Carl R. Rogers

I am willing for the participant to commit or not commit himself to the group. If a person wishes to remain psychologically on the sidelines, he has my implicit permission to do so. The group itself may or may not be willing for him to remain in this stance but personally I am willing. One skeptical college administrator said that the main things he had learned was that he could withdraw from personal participation, be comfortable about it, and realize that he would not be coerced. To me, this seemed a valuable learning and one that would make it much more possible for him actually to participate at the next opportunity. Recent reports on his behavior, a full year later, suggest that he gained and changed from his seeming nonparticipation.

~ Carl R. Rogers

You sit behind a computer all day. You see a name on your screen – not realizing that this is a person with a life, a family, friends, hopes, and dreams. Then you destroy that life by electing them; and I get it. There’s only so much you can do. But once the day is over, you go home, collect a paycheck, and forget about it. That’s what I can’t seem to understand.

~ Tess Alley

There is no doubt that I am selective in my listening, hence directive if people wish to accuse me of this. I am centered in the group member who is speaking, and am unquestionably much less interested in the details of his quarrel with his wife, or of his difficulties on the job, or his disagreement with what has just been said, than in the meaning these experience have for him now and the feeling they arouse in him. It is to these meanings and feelings that I try to respond.

~ Carl R. Rogers

Sometimes a mind is just born late, coming through waves on a slower journey. You were never, in the end, alone. Isn’t it a blessing, what becomes from inside the alone.

~ Lidia Yuknavitch

Change won’t happen because everyone wishes it happens. It happens only when people decide that we’ll never stop digging until we find our gold.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Prayer does not alter that which God has determined, it never changes anything. It merely achieves what He has already foreordained.

~ Watchman Nee

But... it's one of those laws of the universe, isn't it? Nothing stays the same. Things change.

~ Sam Gayton

Change makers don’t think change making is someone else’s job, but rather their calling to fulfill. They take responsibility and face challenges.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The scariest part of discovering that you have the power to change your life, is not doubting if you can do what it takes to achieve your goals: it is the realization that you are now responsible, and there’s nothing out of yourself to blame.

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Be you.That, my friend,is the change you wantto become in the world.

~ Frederick Espiritu

Life is messy. No matter how hard we try to create order, something happens to cause the structure we created to falter. Maybe that's the only way for us to learn. If everything stayed neat and orderly, then we would never be forced to grow and change. We need something unexpected to help us make sense of where we are and to guide us to where we need to go.

~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

The world will become only as great a place to live in as we make it. And, for that, the world needs us. It needs us to get invested. It needs us to be more grateful. It needs us to take things personally! And, I know together we can make it happen. I know wherever you’ll go; you’ll stand for change, for peace, for justice, for equality, for each other, and for a better tomorrow. You’ll put in your brick. I know. I know.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

This approach seems self-defeating when you consider that the goal is love - opening and merging your one life with the lives of others. Love requires openness. The point is to be changed by, and to witness change in, one another. Slowly, this back-and-forth transforms the shared reality we call the world. Love is less noun than verb: not a thing to get, but a process to set in motion.

~ Moira Wegel

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

~ Karen Horney

Vision is also a fickle creature. You can see an object a hundred times, a thousand times, and it remains unchanged. Then in one swift second you realize it has been changing all along and your eyes hid it from you.

~ Cherie Priest

It will take as long as it takes. Your work is to take the time and make the space. Everything else is beyond your influence.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

As change is a constant – as our houses, our money, our friends, our things and even our lovers can always disappear - the one thing that we will always remain the closest to, will be our minds and our bodies.

~ Lauren Klarfeld

How things change,’ I say, ‘how strange that, even when all is lost, we can still find beauty in simple things.

~ Judith Arnopp

Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.

~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. The story of their coming to be shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross, is hardly ever told even in their consciousness; for perhaps their ardour in generous unpaid toil cooled as imperceptibly as the ardour of other youthful loves, till one day their earlier self walked like a ghost in its old home and made the new furniture ghastly. Nothing in the world more subtle than the process of their gradual change! In the beginning they inhaled it unknowingly: you and I may have sent some of our breath towards infecting them, when we uttered our conforming falsities or drew our silly conclusions: or perhaps it came with the vibrations from a woman's glance.

~ George Eliot

I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again. Vincit qui patitur.

~ Rick Yancey

Change is difficult, but it can be managed when you stay aware of the power of your choices, even if it’s simply your attitude.

~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe