Change and Transformation Quotes

"If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect."

"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."

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."

"I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them."

"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary."

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."

"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation."

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

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

"We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being."

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

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

"Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."

"I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes."

"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."

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

"But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul."

"Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise."

"You are never too young to learn, never too old to change."

"I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change."

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

"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."

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."

"Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all."

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

"One doesn't want fashion to look ridiculous, silly, or out of step with the times - but you do want designers that make you think, that make you look at fashion differently. That's how fashion changes. If it doesn't change, it's not looking forward. And that's important to me."

"We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race."

"Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change."

"Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose."

"It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better."

"Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve."

"Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar."

"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."

"People can cry much easier than they can change."

"My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in."

"If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers."

"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction."

"What's dangerous is not to evolve."

"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."

"We seriously have to question the motivation of those people referred to as climate change sceptics, who are denying the evidence of human-caused climate change and preventing us from moving forward by spreading disinformation and supporting unchecked carbon pollution."

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."

"Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system."

"As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me."

"Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job."

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

"There is nothing permanent except change."

"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

"Only idiots refuse to change their minds."

"Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope."