Change Quotes

We cannot change the history of the past.

~ Jimmy Carter

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.

~ Barbara Delinsky

A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds in convincing all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

And how will this come to pass?' He paused and lowered his voice. ' In the same way all change comes to pass, I fear, And I am sorry it is so. It will come to pass by violence and upheaval, by flame and by fury, for no change comes calmly over the world.

~ Walter M. Miller Jr.

I studied history at university. My mutinous discontent recalls something I read there on the subject of revolutions. They do not happen, it was argued, when the oppressed class is being maximally ground down by misery, but, rather, when conditions improve. It is the slight relief of pressure which gives the downtrodden the chance to lift their heads out of the slime, to look about them. and become cognisant of the true circumstances of their lives.

~ Anna Lyndsey

Three’s all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when I knew them. Some had died. All had changed. I knew that. I had changed the most.

~ Dan Groat

The world bein’ so small ain’t always a good thing for those of us who ain’t searchin’ for new and different stuff.

~ Dan Groat

One of the worst things I’ve learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you don’t like than there was when you were younger and you can’t do nothin’ about it.

~ Dan Groat

Politics is motion. John Sears

~ Rick Perlstein

If you on the wrong path, change and travel on right direction.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You've got to keep looking for them, even after you find them. Otherwise, you'll lose them.

~ Pleasefindthis

To change the world, the best thing that you can do is to accept changes with love.

~ Debasish Mridha

Stories change the world.

~ A.d. Posey

Change the present then the change the future.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Positive impact, positive society.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every person has felt pain,some deeper than others,some pain inmeasurable It is a choice to reframe that pain as power to create change~bns

~ Bluenscottish

If we can change the world let's do it now, not later!

~ Deyth Banger

Better to be a catalyst for change than a martyr for lies.

~ Karina Halle

Some of the most valued things we have in life come from changes or mistakes. Don't be afraid if you failed or if you lose someone you love, there is always the rainbow after the rain. And remember that all change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

~ Angie Karan

There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off the path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Stop being okay with the norm, seek to transform.

~ Constance Chuks Friday

There were only seven years between the first and last Beatles albums. That's nothing, seven years, when you think of how their hairstyles changed and their music changed. Some bands now go seven years without hardly bothering to do anything.

~ Nick Hornby

Security is merely an illusion.If you think your schedule, your botox, your insurance, your marriage certificate, your 401K, and the deadbolt on your door is going to keep you safe from change and the happenings of life—think again. Nothing is guaranteed. Nothing can give you solid ground but your own trust in yourself and the purpose of existing-- That is the only solid ground upon which you can stand.

~ Kayko Tamaki

It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

the knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility.

~ Jo Walton

We can never control change, we can only control our response to change.

~ Debasish Mridha

All of us, all living things, have the potential to change.

~ T.a. Barron

If the forest has a day of fire and the heat of the flames does not consume a special tree, it will still be changed; charred, but still standing.

~ Dan Groat

If we don’t see real changes in the world, it simply means we are not serious enough about creating those changes. We cannot a!ord to entertain superficial changes any more. The changes we need should be deep, real, and thorough.

~ Ilchi Lee

When you make choices, please remember: what is good for you but not good for others won’t be good for you either, eventually; what’s good for you and others but not good for the Earth won’t be good for you or others either, eventually; what’s good for you, others, and the Earth will be good for all.

~ Ilchi Lee

Our world desperately needs change. We all know this. The scope of the change ranges from our lifestyles to the direction of our civilization. When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and the caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin.

~ Ilchi Lee

THE SEASONS REMIND ME THAT I MUST KEEP CHANGING.

~ Donald Miller

Time is not tinder for any flame. It will not gather a spark, it will not smolder. It will not change.

~ Dan Groat

When you want something and you don’t have it, it may be a cause of stress to you. However, if we reflect on how we came to have things that were not there originally, we can be excited, delighted, and grateful that we want something even before we have it. Seen from this perspective, wanting something—or more specifically, being able to want something while it is not there yet—is already a gift in itself. !is is why we offer gratitude.

~ Ilchi Lee

Even though consciousness doesn’t seem to be confined to the human brain within the skull, we do experience consciousness through our brain. The transformation of consciousness to attention is facilitated by your brain. Driving thoughts into action is also processed by your brain. Your brain is the seat of the creative observer inside you.

~ Ilchi Lee

Don’t fight change, appreciate change.

~ Debasish Mridha

They take you. They treat you. They transform you.

~ Dan Carr

Awareness in its pure state is nonlocal; there’s no focal point in it. It is unbounded. Awareness, when managed and directed, becomes attention. By turning into attention, awareness becomes localized, and attains a focal point. Because of this feature, attention has the power to direct energy.

~ Ilchi Lee