Change Quotes

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

William S. Burroughs

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

James M. Barrie

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Henri Frederic Amiel

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

Rainn Wilson

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Marcus Aurelius

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Brian Tracy

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

Hugo Black

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry S. Commager

Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.

Steve Maraboli

How would your life change if your actions did all the talking and all you used your mouth for was to say please and thank you?

Steve Maraboli

By taking the time to contemplate where you are and where you want to be, you greatly empower yourself. It's a wonderful opportunity to finally set in motion the changes you want in your life.

Steve Maraboli

Seek out people who aren't afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn't recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely.

Paulo Coelho

All material changes in our everyday life are small in comparison with those in our spiritual life.

Leo Tolstoy

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Steve Jobs

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Come to accept that if your methods don't change, neither will your results.

Steve Maraboli

Your capacity to own something is your capacity to change something.

Steve Maraboli

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Eckhart Tolle