Quotes about change in life

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

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

We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain
way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one
string we have, and that is our attitude. — Charles R. Swindoll

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are
paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control
your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. — Amelia Earhart

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. — William Pollard

It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new
beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and
coming back stronger than before. — Carli Lloyd

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity
is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves
change. Thus an opportunity may be missed. — James E. Faust

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.
Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change
the memory of our past into a hope for our future. — Lewis B. Smedes

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different
when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and
you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. — Don Miguel Ruiz

Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always
provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way
we work. — Klaus Schwab

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership,
society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to
change things for the better. — Harry S Truman
We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being
book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking
outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart
enough to change it. — Tabatha Coffey

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your
office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that
what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.
— Leroy Hood

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. — Martha Beck

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know
that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that. — Gillian
Anderson

Change your thoughts and you change your world. — Norman Vincent Peale Let us remember:
One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. — Malala Yousafzai

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot
change anything. — George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing permanent except change. — Heraclitus Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas
inspire change. — Barbara Januszkiewicz

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the
future. — Walt Disney Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality
pretty much stay the same. — Jenna Dewan

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever
have. — Margaret Mead

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. —
Viktor E. Frankl

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. — Andy
Warhol I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. — Nicholas
Sparks

We need to make sure we're all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and
to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society. — Justin Trudeau

Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine
that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next. — Louie Schwartzberg
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our
personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life
experiences do change us. — Joan D. Vinge

Look at what you want to change, gather a few people who believe in it like you do, and start
moving forward. It's important to remember that you don't always need a destination.
Sometimes, you just have to make forward motion. And you absolutely can. — Debby Ryan

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with
action can change the world. — Joel A. Barker

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

The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the
world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it? — Sandra Cisneros

You can't change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting
point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong
coxswain to guide them. — William H. McRaven

We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things.
So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate. — RM

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers
- but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted
to change you're the one who has got to change. — Katharine Hepburn

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am
today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller
expression of that essence. — Ricky Williams

The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate
change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will
be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for
some frightful ordeals, if not extinction. — Christian de Duve

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the
good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
— Tom Brokaw

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
— Denis Waitley

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die
before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when
they do want to, you can’t stop them. ― Andy Warho
I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my
life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No”
for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. ― Steve Jobs

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the
offender nor the offended are any more themselves. — Blaise Pascal

Change is one of the hardest thing. It is not easy to let go, especially when it has to do with love
because it is all about our feelings, emotions and trust. However, we should fight to let go and
move forward. People don’t like love, they like that flittery flirty feeling. They don’t love love –
love is sacrificial, love is ferocious, it’s not emotive. Our culture doesn’t love love, it loves the
idea of love. It wants the emotion without paying anything for it. It’s ridiculous. - Matt Chandler
Parsons

If you think you are going wrong, don’t move further, there is always a U-turn available for go
back in right path. So think wisely and always take changes in a positive way. Two people who
were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is
the saddest thing in the world. - Warsan Shire

If life give you a chance to change your life, you should take it. Even it is for love. Because
people changes with the time but their memories always remain there. You need to accept the
change for better future. 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

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love
changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky. ― Walter Mosley,

Blue Light I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before
your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well. ― Sarah Dessen,

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the
structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum
wage. — Robert Reich

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence—it is to act with yesterday’s
logic. — Peter Drucker

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

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
— Peter Drucker

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
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in
traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new
place. — Washington Irving

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look
at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. — Alfred Edward
Perlman

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its
success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only
refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn
about the vision, but flexible with your plan. - John C. Maxwell

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking
in order to find it. - Niels Bohr

We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you
never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea.
Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have
something better. - C. JoyBell C.

When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel
something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome. -
Kristin Armstrong

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his
attitude. - Oprah Winfrey As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to
adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills. -
Alain Dehaze

I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the
things we don't like. I think that's part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that
in their own way. - Tom Brady

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return.
Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so
that one may be happy in the interim. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Every few years, I change my look for the simple reason that I get bored. If you Google Image
me, you will see so many different looks: long hair, short hair, clean shaven, beard, etc. -
Johnny Iuzzini

Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can't put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable,
then you will never grow. You will never change. You'll never learn. - Jason Reynolds
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People
feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance
leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. - Bill Gates

As the times change, people change, and so do their tastes, so I try to understand what the
public wants, what they require. I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to
understand. - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Every phase of anyone's life comes with some measure of change.

Whether prepared for it or not, change is an inevitable factor that will happen to everyone in life.