Quotes About Change

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

People's opinions of us will always change, but how we see ourselves will stay with us forever.

When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.