Quotes on Change

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

Business must go on reiterating its absolute commitment to embedding human rights in all it does, driving industry change through collaboration with governments, international organizations, and each other.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.

Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

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

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.

Ultimately, change will happen when problems persist and enough people are concerned.

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.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

If there has been any progress in the Chinese society and politics over the last 20 years, it is all because the citizens have been pushing for change.