50 Quotes About Change that Will Quickly Change Your Perspective
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change” — Albert Einstein
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude” — Oprah Winfrey
“Every day the clock resets. Your wins don’t matter. Your failures don’t matter. Don’t stress on what was, fight for what could be“ — Sean Higgins
“Don’t let rejection create self-doubt. The founder of Starbucks was turned down by 217 of the 242 investors he initially spoke with” — Elizabeth Galbut
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy
“Play to your strengths. If you aren’t great at something, do more of what you’re great at.” —Jason Lemkin
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” — Harriet Tubman
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody” — Stephen Chbosky
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
“Grief does not change you, It reveals you” — John Green.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela.
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” —Terry Pratchett
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” —Albert Einstein
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” — Rumi
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” —Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“To say goodbye is to die a little.” — Raymond Chandler
“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” — Roy T. Bennett
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” — Lao Tzu
“You can’t stop the future, You can’t rewind the past, The only way to learn the secret is to press play,” — Jay Asher
“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.” — Arnold Bennett
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates
“Don’t let the chaos of change scare you away.” — Anonymous
“All great changes are preceded by chaos.” — Anonymous
“You send out an energetic field that affects the world around you, with that heart energy, you have the power to change YOUR world.” — Unknown
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” — Gail Sheehy
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw
“When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change.” — George Bernard Shaw
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” — Harold Wilson
“People can cry much easier than they can change.” — James Baldwin
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy
“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” — John Kenneth Galbraith
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
“Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers, and business.” — Mark Sanborn
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” — Maya Angelou
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” — Mother Teresa
“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” — Nathaniel Branden
Change your thoughts and you change your world”. — Norman Vincent Peale
“People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.” — Peter Senge
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — R. Buckminster Fuller
“Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.” — Sydney J. Harris
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” — W. Edwards Deming
“There is nothing wrong with change if it is in the right direction.” — Winston Churchill
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill
“And just for fun… “Change is inevitable–except a vending machine.” — Robert C. Gallagher
“Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.” — Charles Duhigg,
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” — Confucius
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” — Gail Sheehy