Quotes About Change
- “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” ―.
- Change must help us adapt effectively – to us get to a defined destination. Change management is a critical skill in today’s c-suite – and specifically in Sales and Marketing. Being able to design, execute, and sustain change is key to continually improving the health of your organization. In order to drive effective transformation.
- “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama “You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.” – Roy T. Bennett “Life is neither static nor unchanging.
Quotes About Change “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.
No matter who you are, what you have been through, where you come from and where you are going, there are certain things that we all share as human beings.
We all want to reach our goals and be successful in life. We seek care and love from others. But most of all, we all want to live in a better world.
Quotes about Changing the World
Here are some of the most famous quotes about changing the world that can start a spark in your heart and inspire you to take a step forward.
1. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
2. “The world can only change from within.” – Eckhart Tolle
3. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
4. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs are people who are alive.” – Howard Thurman
5. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
6. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
7. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
8. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein
9. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
10. “If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make that change.” – Michael Jackson
11. “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
12. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
13. “Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.” – Jack Ma
14. “It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.” – Vivienne Westwood
15. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
16. “One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
17. “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
18. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Richard Buckminster Fuller
19. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
20. “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” – Aldous Huxley
21. “Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.” – John Lennon
22. “There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.” – Terry Pratchett
23. “I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.” – Tupac Shakur
24. “In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.” – Jimi Hendrix
25. “If you think we can’t change the world, it just means you’re not one of those that will.” – Jacque Fresco
26. “History shows us that the people who end up changing the world – the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries – are always nuts until they are right, and then they are geniuses.” – John Eliot
27. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
28. “Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.” – Bikram Choudhry
29. “How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
30. “We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.” – Nelson Mandela
31. “The only way we can change our world is to take responsibility for our part in it.” – Rachael Bermingham
32. “A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.” – Richard Bach
33. “The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness.” – Shari Arison
34. “If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.” – Larry Page
35. “When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix
36. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.” – Karl Marx
37. “You change the world by being yourself.” – Yoko Ono
38. “Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don’t hide your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it. That is how you change the world.” – Vironika Tugaleva
39. “The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.” – Hugh Macleod
40. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin
41. “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
Quotes About Change Being Good
42. “We must become the change we wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
43. “The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives and frees prisoners. Ordinary people, whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet… unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places… we do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” – J.K. Rowling
44. “When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” – Pauline R. Kezer
45. “To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.” – Betty Williams
46. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi
47. “Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.” – Charles Eames
48. “The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.” – Norman Borlaug
49. “Yes, it is love that will save our world and our civilization, love, even for enemies.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
50. “If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.” – Peter Block
51. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs
52. “I believe it’s time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.” – Janelle Monae
53. “The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.” – Abraham Lincoln
54. “You really can change the world if you care enough.” – Marian Wright Edelman
55. “When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.” – The Dalai Lama
56. “Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.” – Marcus Aurelius
57. “The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” – Charles Kettering
58. “The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.” – Bill Clinton
59. “Seek the rapids, not the calm of the lake. Take the calm to reflect and prepare for the rapids. If we face permanent whitewater, we will see the need for and experience change.” – Peter Vaille
60. “Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.” – Seth Godin
61. “We have it in our power to change the world over.” – Thomas Paine
62. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough, we must do.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
63. “All great changes are preceded by chaos.” – Deepak Chopra
64. “It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.” – Jacques Fresco
65. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams
66. “Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.” – Ted Sizer
67. “Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.” – Buckminster Fuller
68. “Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.” – JR
69. “Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness.” – Matthew Kelly
70. “When you believe in what you’re doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.” – Samuel Dash
Final Thoughts
The world cannot change on its own. It takes time and needs a support system. What better support system does the world need than human beings living in it who are ready to make a change? So, do not wait for others to take action, be that person to lead the change for a better world.
As people always say, change starts within you, have the winning habit to be successful and be a great example to the society. Being a positive inspiration can go a long way, as it can be passed to other individuals that could carry the inspiration on to an endless chain of good change.
Change is all around us. Change is inside of us. Change is all there is. At a cellular level we are changing every single second. On a psychological level we are changing every single moment. Yet many of us fear change. Change makes us uneasy. It hassles us at every corner, poking at us, annoying us. We feel like change happens when we finally get used to something. We even hate change to the core at times.
But changes helps us grow.
Change keeps us moving forward (hopefully). Change keeps us on our toes, rather than becoming complacent. Change gets us out of our comfort zones and opens up new doors for us. Change is good.
I hope with these 43 quotes on change, you might see change in your life as a positive thing, and thank it for what it is, and what it’s trying to do for you and your life.
Here are the 43 all-time best quotes on change:
Quotes About Change Being Hard
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol
“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 Warhol
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
“People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing.” – John Porter
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” – Steve Maraboli
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” – Aldous Huxley
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” – Henri Bergson
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” – Anatole France
“All great changes are preceded by chaos.” – Deepak Chopra
“Life is how you see it. The only way to change your life is to change your perception of it. – Kevin Friend
“The best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill
“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….” – Erica Jong
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” – Mary Shelley
“A year from now you will wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb
“Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.” -Bikram Choudhury
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” -Wayne Gretzy
“In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” -Warren Buffett
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” -Maria Robinson
“By changing nothing, nothing changes.” -Tony Robbins
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” -Tony Robbins
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” –Anonymous
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” -C.S. Lewis
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” -Marilyn Monroe
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” -Mark Twain
“When in doubt, choose change.” -Lily Leung
“Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” -Steve Jobs
“If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” -Steve Jobs
“Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.” -Leo Tolstoy
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” –Jim Rohn
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” –Elbert Hubbard
“As soon as anyone starts telling you to be “realistic,” cross that person off your invitation list.” –John Eliot
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” –Michael Jordan
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -George Bernard Shaw
“You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” –A.A. Milne
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
“Never, never, never, never give up.” –Winston Churchill
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” –Unknown
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