Quotes about Change

“If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.”

“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.”

“The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.”

“You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense.”

“We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.”

“Logic will never change emotion or perception.”

“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.”

“Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.”

“Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid.”

“When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.”

“There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.”

“I think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for your brain to adapt.”

“There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.”

“Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.”

“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”

“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.”

“Things do not change; we change.”

“Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.”

“The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.”

“Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.”

“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.”