Change quotes

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

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

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

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.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

For the past 33 years, 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.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

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.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.