Quotes About Change

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

We are not shooting enough professors.

Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.

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

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will be another story.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

You change the world by being yourself.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.