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Quotes About Change

The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.
~ Martin Seligman
None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)
~ Cornel West
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
~ William James
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
~ Tennessee Williams
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
~ Alexis Carrel
The worst has happened. The best is next.
~ Paul George
If not you, who? If not now, when?
~ Hillel the Elder
You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. You will never improve yourself if you cling to what used to be.
~ Leon Brown
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.
~ Richie Norton
Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination
~ William Bridges
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.
~ Dwight Howard
Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.
~ Steve Prefontaine
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
~ Harold Geneen
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.
~ Bill Loguidice
You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.
~ Leymah Gbowee
It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.
~ Nancy Thayer
The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.
~ H. M. Tomlinson
The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.
~ Shakti Gawain
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
~ Barry Goldwater