Change quotes

The world's most deadly disease is 'hardening of the attitudes.'

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Change your thoughts and you can change the world.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be from this moment on.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

I'm asking you to believe in yourselves. I'm asking you to stop settling for the world as it is, and to help us make the world as it should be.

The biggest, most dramatic change happens incrementally, little by little, through compromises and adjustments over years and decades.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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

Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

There is always the possibility of change. If it happened in South Africa, why can't it happen anywhere?

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Things do not change; we change.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.

There's just one thing that's permanent in this world, and that's change.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.

Be stubborn on your vision but flexible on the details.

As long as you're green you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Change before you have to.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

Our industry does not respect tradition, it only respects innovation.

Growth and comfort do not coexist.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.

A ballplayer should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup.

It takes a very long time to become young.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.