
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.Rumi
These 102 quotes on change come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.Rumi

We are the first generation to be able to end poverty, and the last generation that can take steps to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.Ban Ki-moon

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.Katherine Mansfield

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.J.R.R. Tolkien

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.Karl Marx

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.Thomas Sankara

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for.Barack Obama

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.Maya Angelou

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.Lao Tzu

Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.James Baldwin

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.Ben Okri

This world is not going to change unless we are willing to change ourselves.Rigoberta Menchú

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

Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things pass away; God never changes.Teresa of Ávila

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.Orhan Pamuk
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.Karen Clark
Change in all things is sweet.Aristotle
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?Gloria Steinem
Loss is nothing else but change,and change is Natures delight.Marcus Aurelius
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.Plutarch
All things change; nothing perishes.Ovid
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.Maya Angelou
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.Leo Tolstoy
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.Wayne Dyer
They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.Thomas Hardy
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.Oprah Winfrey
Transformation doesn't take place with a vacuum; instead, it occurs when we are indirectly and directly connected to all those around us.Byron Pulsifer
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.Thomas Carlyle
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.Wayne Dyer
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.Jacob Braude
The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work.Dalai Lama
Don't wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change.Barbara Baron
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.Richard Bach
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.Tryon Edwards
We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.David Seamans
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.Jack Dixon
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.Denis Waitley
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.Michael Jordan
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.Margaret Cousins
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.Margaret Mead
Some people thrive on huge, dramatic change. Some people prefer the slow and steady route. Do what's right for you.Julie Morgenstern
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John F. Kennedy
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.Jimmy Dean
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.Henri Bergson
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.Maya Angelou
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.Leonardo da Vinci
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.Denis Waitley
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.Marcus Aurelius
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.Joseph Campbell
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…Caroline Myss
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.Martin Luther King Jr.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.Abraham Maslow
Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.Mary Almanac
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.Richard Bach
Things do not change, we change.Henry David Thoreau
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.Gautama Buddha
To change ones life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions.William James
Transformation does not start with some one else changing you; transformation is an inner self reworking of what you are now to what you will be.Byron Pulsifer
Complaining doesn't change a thing only taking action does.Byron Pulsifer
Thats the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.Lisa Alther
Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change.Catherine Pulsifer
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you…Napoleon Hill
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.Chuang Tzu
The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.Dalai Lama
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.Alfred North Whitehead
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.Tony Robbins
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to…Harriet Tubman
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.Paul Boese
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.John Simone
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.Georg Lichtenberg
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that…Harry Burchell Mathews
You really can change the world if you care enough.Marian Edelman
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.Tony Robbins
When you make a choice, you change the future.Deepak Chopra
If you resist change, you resist life.Sadhguru
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.Stephen Hawking
My name will be lost, this face will change; my voice alone is my identity.Gulzar
Change is coming, whether you like it or not.Greta Thunberg
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten years.Bill Gates
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.Jackie Chan
Change is the nature of life but challenge is the aim of life. So you have to challenge the changes, not change the challenges.Amitabh Bachchan
Climate change is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together…Leonardo DiCaprio
Everybody has gone through something that has changed them in a way that they could never go back to the person they once were.Leonardo DiCaprio

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.Benjamin Disraeli

Every body perseveres in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by forces impressed.Isaac Newton

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.Angela Davis

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone.Marcus Aurelius

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.Octavia Butler

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.Alan Watts

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.Dalai Lama

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.Mahatma Gandhi

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.Maya Angelou

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.Mother Teresa

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.Mary Shelley