Quotes about Change

“Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.”

“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.”

“If you don't like Scottish weather, wait 30 minutes, and it is likely to change.”

“Why do we say 'Have a great weekend?' That's just a spell. You're just going - I have no control over your weekend. But words matter. They change our interior world. Have a great weekend.”

“Everything can change in a heartbeat.”

“If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world.”

“I want to help people and change the world.”

“Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.”

“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.”

“I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.”

“A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.”

“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”

“Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.”

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

“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.”

“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”

“The Titanic hit the iceberg not because they could not see it coming but because they could not change direction.”

“Bravery is the engine of change.”

“If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.”

“No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.”

“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.”