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Quotes about Change


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

Mahatma Gandhi

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Oliver J. Hart

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day as does the air around us.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

Kurt Lewin

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

Nelson Mandela [A Long Walk to Freedom]

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Kin Hubbard

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.

Everett Dirksen

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Czeslaw Milosz

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

P.D. James

Make a firm decision now... you can always change it later.

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

Nelson Mandela [A Long Walk to Freedom]

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day as does the air around us.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

Nelson Mandela [A Long Walk to Freedom]

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

It takes only one person to change your life - you.

Ruth Casey

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn...and change.

Carl Rogers

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Lewis Grizzard

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

Confucius Analects

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

E.B. White

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Leonard Huxley

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