Change Quotes

Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.

~ Steven Redhead

Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to.

~ Mamur Mustapha

I tried to bunked classes, I skipped lectures, I cheated in exams, I lied to my teachers and some stuff were taken for granted when I was a student before. I am not proud about it. Of course, I learned from that experience. I learned that everyone has a chance to change. It doesn't mean that if I am dumbass before and you call me the same thing now. Because now, I work hard, play the game well and strive for excellence. This is me now, a guy with a strong grit in my heart.

~ Nathaniel E. Quimada

Resistance to change in the mental health system comes disguised as protection of civil liberties and freedom of speech. As a result, many parents, families, and caregivers are at a loss and feel defeated by the majority of Americans who strive to maintain the current rules of society.

~ Tamara Hill

The beauty in our beliefs causes us to let our grassy goals and dreams take root, for sorrow gives seed to success, success blossoms into significance, and significance transcends the seasons that come and go with the whims of the world.

~ Kayla Severson

People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.

~ A.j. Darkholme

So before we end and then beginWe'll drink a toast to how it's beenA few more hours to be completeA few more nights on satin sheetsA few more times that I can sayI've loved these days

~ Billy Joel

For when Iwaltzed with Chris, I'd made him someone else.

~ V.c. Andrews

If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Choosing to break up your family is one of the most difficult decisions you will make in a lifetime. But once you have come to it; it will be with certainty. Certainty that you are ready to embrace the changes, the challenges and the joys of starting a new life.

~ Lisa Thomson

Courage is fueled by the motivation to take the first step into the unknown.

~ Cheryl Nielsen

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

~ Robert Moss

Water flows, but never changes. It's always H2O.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

People are crazy and times are strange,I'm locked in tightI'm out of range,I use to carebut things have changed.

~ Bob Dylan

I am crazy enough to think I owe the world a change.

~ Michael Davi

This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something changes in myself, not so much my inclinations or my tastes as my very blood, as if a subtle disease had been injected to alter its course, its density and nature. To live around a true poet is to feel your blood run thin, to dream a paradise of anemia, and to hear, in your veins, the rustle of tears.

~ Emil M. Cioran

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

~ Robert Jordan

Change is inevitable. If you don’t seek it out, it will seek you out.

~ J.s.b. Morse

HopeIt started out as snow,oh, big flakesfloating softly, catching on my sweater,lacy on the edges of my sleeves.Snow covered the dust, softened thefences, soothe the parched lipsof the land.And then it changedhalfway between snow and rain,sleet,glazing the earth.Until at lastit slipped into rain, light as mist.It was the kindest kind of rainthat fell.Soft and then a little heavier,helping alongwhat had already falleninto the hard-panearthuntil itrained,steady as a good friendwho walks beside you,not getting in your way,staying with you through a hard time.And because the rain came so patient and slow at first,and built up strength as the earthremembered how to yield,instead of washing off,the water slid in,into the dying groundand softened its stubborn pride,and eased it back toward life.

~ Karen Hesse

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

~ Randy Alcorn

You can't make a difference unless you are different.

~ Chris Hodges

I guarantee it will change your life, but only because everything does, however small.

~ Johnny Rich

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

~ Thomas Hardy

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.

~ Arthur Miller

It may be necessary to change our brand, catch phrases, strategy, design, etc. once in awhile. It may give us competitive advantages. But a change that demands the change of the SOUL of who we're doesn't deserve to be entertained.

~ Assegid Habtewold

Catastrophe is change on the fast track. Disaster is a laboratory for adaptability.

~ Robert Watson

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

~ Max Mckeown

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.

~ Max Mckeown

Change is possible.''Change is inevitable.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

...we can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly creative - that looks unreasonable and irrational to the eye of the Ego.

~ Ilchi Lee

Once you discovered that it is ok to love yourself there will be a world opening up to you. You will experience the magic of this world, you will see its beauty in spite of all the troubles and you will be happy.

~ Nynke Visser

Happiness is just a state of mind, you don’t need any artificial or superficial matter to experience happiness. I believe that happiness is an instrument to cope and an instrument to change this world full of troubles. When you stop labelling happiness to a goal or an artificial or superficial matter you will be happy.

~ Nynke Visser

You need to experience fear in order to be capable of Universal love. If you can’t acknowledge fear, you can’t change it.

~ Nynke Visser

Once you become aware of knowledge and you are conscious of knowledge, there is no going back to the previous conscious state of mind.

~ Nynke Visser

A motorcycle is a vehicle of change, after all. It puts the wheels beneath a midlife crisis, or a coming-of-age saga, or even just the discovery of something new, something you didn't realize was there. It provides the means to cross over, to transition, or to revitalize; motorcycles are self-discovery's favorite vehicle.

~ Lily Brooks-Dalton

With regard to navigating relationship's highways and bi-ways - avoid changing lanes without first giving a signal.

~ T.f. Hodge

The more judgmental a person is the sadder they are.

~ David W. Earle

Consider letting go of the barriers between yourself and others, let go of the definition our culture has inflicted upon us and allow the best part of ourselves to connect with the wondrous parts of others. Allow yourself to connect in a deeper and more profound way.

~ David W. Earle

When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace I experienced in my life.

~ David W. Earle

If one looks at a balancing scale putting “fear of change” on one side and “status quo” on the other, they are often in balance. Change is hard. We tend to accept our condition and no matter how painful, we will not change until the balancing scale is tipped - only when the discomfort becomes greater than the fear of change does the scale tip.

~ David W. Earle