Change and Transformation Quotes

"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."

"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."

"Peace, unity, love, and nonviolence should be our rallying cry and the catalyst for change in our nation."

"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy."

"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality."

"Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands."

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

"There is nothing so stable as change."

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

"Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks."

"People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now."

"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change."

"Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment."

"The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes."

"Climate change, migration... they transcend national borders and require an international response."

"This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness."

"I have an urge to communicate. I think I'm a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn't talk too much."

"If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring."

"Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land."

"The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories."

"I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else."

"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve."

"Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority."

"Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor."

"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."

"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is."

"Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come."

"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them."

"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart."

"Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about a sustainable development."

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."

"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."

"There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation."

"You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue."

"'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change."

"The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change."

"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

"Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you."

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

"Taste may change, but inclination never."

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."

"Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people."

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

"Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'"

"I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers."

"Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed."

"Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power."

"Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes."