Change Quotes

You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

People don't want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it's different.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

All men can and will change. But there's only one woman we're going to change for.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

You can't change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you're thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.