Change Quotes

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves" "If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write" "People who want to succeed should think like a disrupter… That’s going to become more and more true, because so much is changing" "You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you" "Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new" "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will" "You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave" "We should not ask what is wrong with the world, for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, what has happened to the salt and light" "If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible." "You can't change people, only they can change themselves" "It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do" "We cannot expect rapid change to happen overnight." "You cannot make a difference unless you're different" "Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree" "As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change—not when you want them to change" "From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world" "Society changes only if people want it badly enough. And in that regard, emotional literacy can have the greatest effect of all: it empowers people to direct their lives." "Education does not change the world. Education changes people. People change the world" "A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing."