Change Quotes

She spent a great deal of time staring into space, oppressed by the sense that she was waiting. But waiting for what? She did not know. Surely someone would call, someone must be needing her. Yet each day proceeded like the one before. Nothing intense, nothing desperate, ever happened. Time did not move. The home, the city, the nation, and life itself were eternal; still she had a foreboding that one day, without warning and without pity, all the dear, important things would be destroyed.

~ Evan S. Connell

The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change.

~ Raheel Farooq

Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants a great big final bang, that's what it'll get. One should never protest against anything unless it's going to have an effect. None of those marches do. One should either be silent or go straight to the top.

~ Robert Graves

I don't know how to describe the sound of a world crashing. Maybe there is no sound, just a great emptiness, an enveloping sorrow, a creeping nothingness that coils itself around you like a stiff wire.

~ Charles M. Blow

There are different kinds of judgment-making. Naturally, when we meet people, we form judgments based upon how we were taught to see the world and other people (how we were raised, what we've experienced and etc.) The first kind of judgment-making is the more commonplace thing: to judge and to write that judgment in stone. The second kind of judgment-making is the kind that I do: to judge but then to write those judgments in the sand near the shoreline where the waves lap onto, that way, if I am wrong, the waves of truth may easily wash away any judgments I have made and thus I can be malleable and shaped easily by truth rather than by preconceived notions. The second kind of judgment is crucial to life, because it allows us to appreciate people and circumstances to the fullest. It allows us to live.

~ C. Joybell C.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

~ Melvil Dewey

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

~ Edward Bellamy

... if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back. - Zoe

~ Veronica Roth

This is an emotional request to the for-profit startups I help to build, strategize, and monetize. I do it for free because I care for you and your vision. I don't take an equity or a salary despite knowing that you and your investors will make money, and loads of it, eventually. I help because I care. Please remember, to pay back. Not to me, but to the world. Preferably, donate to a non-profit which will never receive the investments that you can and you are; donate to children and youth who want to do good things, to families that need you, to social startups that sweat day in and day out to bring smiles, and to anyone who cares for PEOPLE more than PROFITS. My salary will be drawn. I will be paid back in full. Thank you!

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Try evolving as much as you cry.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today’s the day. Say it: this is going to be my day.

~ Brendon Burchard

When we don’t fear change, stress disappears. When we accept change, fear disappears.

~ Debasish Mridha

For what is life but a continuous, dynamic and fluid circle of discoveries that surrounds all peoples and has the power to change even the smallest of us.

~ Daniel Watts

It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.

~ Deb Caletti

Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.

~ Jacob M. Appel

It is when you are at your lowest, when you are broken and fearful of change, that you must learn to silence the voices of caution in your mind and leap forth to continue on your journey, further than you thought possible, and pounce on that prize you seek.

~ S.a. Bouraleh

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.

~ Gian-Carlo Rota

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

~ Peter Hilton

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

~ John C. Maxwell

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

~ John C. Maxwell

The greatest of all capabilities of a human being is to become born again.

~ J.r. Rim

The blood is sleeping. But the desire of feeling my own senses has grown deep, filled with an unstoppable tremendous drive to eliminate the lifeless stuff, which has gotten chained to me and lulled me to sleep.The rivers of my veins start to flow more and more powerful in every unit of time like lava underground!

~ Anna Asche

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

~ Emma Donoghue

Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result that wastes your time.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When we are young, we want to be old and for things to change. When we are old, we want to be young and for things to go back to the way they were.

~ J.r. Rim

Genuine faith will produce genuine changes in your life.

~ Jim George

If you live the same day, week, or year that you have always lived, your life will never get any better. Let yourself actually live. Fix what is broken in your life. Explore what you have left unexplored. Find the discomfort of the new and embrace it. Enjoy all that life has to offer.

~ Avina Celeste

The difference between change and improvement is very easy to understand: change is temporary and improvement is permanent. Change is for a temporary feeling one may have due to circumstances. Improvement means to permanently change oneself in the name of ones self. Change only makes you stronger when it’s an improvement from your current situation.

~ Mohammad Salman B. Sanayon

Improving your life doesn’t have to be about changing everything – it’s about making changes that count.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions

~ Douglass B. Reeves

No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waiting for the situation to change.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

~ Jim Rohn

Don't let anybody try to change who you are, because at the end of the day, you are the one who must live with yourself.

~ Anonymous

However, it’s usually random acts of good intent, like this one, which get you into the worst trouble in the long run. They say that if you want to change the world then you should be that change you want to see. Well that’s what Gandhi said and see what they did to him. Ya, random acts of good intent are the ones that just might get you killed. The further you stick your neck out for others the more likely it’s going to chopped, or at least get a large heavy albatross around it.

~ Andrew James Pritchard

If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. -- Philip Mauro in The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization

~ Philip Mauro

All I want to be is a wandering entrepreneur touching billions of lives. I am going to be the monk who never bought a Ferrari.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

People submit tooeasily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, wheneverthey consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what theyare giving up, never what they are about to gain

~ Chris Murray

Only when we pay attention and notice small moments, do we make the connections that lead to a change in our perspective.

~ Andrea Goeglein

Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change in consciousness, regarding themselves and their status

~ Robert Trivers

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

~ Milton H. Erickson