Change Quotes

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Work, Freedom, Struggle

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.
Reinhold Niebuhr

God, Courage, Wisdom

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.
Barack Obama

Time, Waiting, Person

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

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs

Life, Morning, Today

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl

Able, Situation, Ourselves

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France

Life, Die, Before

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
John Lennon

Life, Live, Freak

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

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

Caring, Few, Indeed

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

Everyone, Himself, Thinks

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu

End, May, Direction

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan

Great, America, Begins

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

Mind, Won, Subject

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill

Perfect, Often, Improve

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer

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

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass

Struggle, Progress

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Small, Thoughtful, Group

Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton

Hope, Fear, Living

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

Nice, Word, Progress

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius

Men, Wisest, Stupidest

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