Change Quotes and Proverbs

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, Freeze-Frame
What is required for effective change is continuity of sincere effort to release and let go of inefficient thought patterns from the past.

Lance Armstrong
Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

Leo Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

John Welwood
The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. .

Caroline Schoeder
Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

I. Krishnamurti
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Thomas Fuller
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Maya Angelou
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

David Schwartz
The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived.

Marilyn Ferguson
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Corinthians
Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye...

W.H. Murray, The Story of Everest
Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

John Steinbeck
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.

George Eliot
It is never too late to become what you might have been.

Jessamyn West
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

John Schaar
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Don't fear change, embrace it.

Goethe
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Heraclitus
Nothing endures but change.

Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

William James
To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions.

Aristotle (384-322 BC) - Greek philosopher
Change in all things is sweet.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Heraclitus
There is nothing permanent except change.

James Hillman
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

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

Unknown
Your current safe boundries were once unknown frontiers.

Dr. Robert Anthony
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour.

Andrea Ayvazian
A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked,"Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?" Muste replied, "Oh, I don't do it to change the country, I do it so the country won't change me.