Quotes of Change

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

Mahatma Gandhi

In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.

Albert Schweitzer

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Harold Wilson

Growth is the only evidence of life. Growth is change.
John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864

All things in this world are impermanent. They have the nature to rise and pass away. To be in harmony with this truth brings true happiness.

Buddhist Chant

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Louis Bergeson

Only I can change my life; no one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the Phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

Things do not change; WE change.

Henry David Thoreau

It's not that some people has willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
W. Somerset Maugham