Change and Transformation Quotes

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."

"It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate."

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

"Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists."

"I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?"

"I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality."

"When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life."

"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."

"A zebra does not change its spots."

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

"Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport."

"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change."

"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."

"Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first."

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."

"The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them."

"Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are."

"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being."

"Change takes courage."

"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."

"Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever."

"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

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

"Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime."

"Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass."

"You change your life by changing your heart."

"Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life."

"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."

"'Vogue' is a fashion magazine, and a fashion magazine is about change."

"All things must change to something new, to something strange."

"What I think is if the world is in some difficulty - about climate change, about economics - then we had better make sure that 100 per cent of every brain available on the planet is working at full pelt to try to sort these things out."

"Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed."

"Change is hard, but change is good."

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."

"Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics."

"Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change."

"Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."

"Things don't have to change the world to be important."

"We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else."

"No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change."

"Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges."

"My moms always told me, 'How long you gonna play the victim?' I can say I'm mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself."

"Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?"

"I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change."

"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."

"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world."

"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it."