Change and Transformation Quotes

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

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

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."

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

"I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls."

"I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."

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

"I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side."

"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."

"A hero is someone right who doesn't change."

"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."

"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."

"Change in all things is sweet."

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

"Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better."

"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."

"At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed."

"It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene."

"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."

"I'm a great admirer of the Trump change of mind about China and making an ally out of China instead of screaming about their trade."

"If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle."

"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary."

"The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history."

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

"Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things."

"Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do."

"You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior."

"There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it."

"Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change."

"To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly."

"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."

"When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world."

"People change and forget to tell each other."

"I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all."

"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."

"I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances."

"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."

"Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body."

"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

"Power does not change you, it unmasks you."

"Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life."

"We cannot change the past, only recover from it. And perhaps learn its cruel lessons."

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

"The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact."

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."

"The motivation to do anything - like change your entire life around - doesn't just come from some magical, mystical place within you. Action is both the effect of motivation and the cause of it."

"It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy."