Creating Change Quotes:

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

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

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Incrementalism, Times Have Changed

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

- Leo Tolstoy

source: "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Happiness, Making A Difference In The World, Times Have Changed

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Change, Life Changing, People Changing, Some People Never Change, Ready For Change

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

- Andy Warhol

source: Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

Be the change you want to see.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Indian Independence Day, Some Nice

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Important Work, Social Good

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

- Andre Gide

source: "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Times Have Changed

Be the change you want to see in your networks

- James H. Fowler

topic: Want, Managing Change, Indian Independence Day, Some Nice, Live Life To Its Fullest

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

- Erica Jong

source: FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Jul 06, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Change, Courage, Fear Of The Future, Time For A Change

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

- Henri Bergson

source: Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

The key to change is to let go of fear.

- Rosanne Cash

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Letting Go, Managing Change, Some People Never Change

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Ambition, Men, Progress, Social Progress, Man And Superman

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

topic: Life, Motivational, Change, Social Progress, Man And Superman

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

- John Eliot

source: John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

topic: Success, Lists, Realistic, Times Have Changed, Life Changing Inspirational

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, When Things Go Wrong, Times Have Changed

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Motivational, Decision, World, Continuing On, Inevitable Change

s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.

- Abraham Cowley

topic: Change, Scene, Constant, Creating Change, Inconstancy

The more things change, the more they stay different.

- Melissa de la Cruz

source: Melissa de la Cruz (2009). “Girl Stays in the Picture”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

topic: Change, Different, Grey, Deep Space, Matter Of Time

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

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Change, Success, Managing Change, Some People Never Change

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

- Washington Irving

topic: Change, Comfort, Relief, Stagecoaches, Life Is Changing

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

- Eric Hoffer

source: Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Managing Change, Managing Time

It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

topic: Change, Men, Order, Incredulity, Managing Change

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Change, Powerful, Some People Never Change, Ready For Change

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Change, Chaos, Some People Never Change, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Change

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Courage To Change

Build what you want to see in the world.

- Jack Dorsey

topic: World, Want, What You Want, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Time To Move On, Times Have Changed

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

- Anatole France

source: Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.186, Anatole France

topic: Life, Change, Spirituality, Resistance To Change, Times Have Changed

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Inspirational, Change, Wisdom, Social Development, Social Good

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

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

- Joey Comeau

source: "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

topic: World, Want, Trouble, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

- Jim Rohn

source: FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 18, 2017

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Chances In Life

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Making A Difference In The World, Innovation Inspiration

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

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Social Power, Social Studies

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.

- Washington Irving

source: 'Tales of a Traveller' (1824) 'To the Reader'

topic: Change, Life Changing, People Changing, Stagecoaches, Life Is Changing

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Differences, Prayer Changes Things, Courage To Change

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Change, Today, Inevitable, Society Today, Change Is Inevitable

If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

- John Gibbons

topic: Change, Life Changing, Darkness Within, Managing Change, Some People Never Change

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

- Alphonse Karr

topic: Change, Birthday, Things Change, Deep Space, Matter Of Time

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.

- Max Carver

topic: Creating, Empathy, Community, Creating Change, Impetus

Creating Change - The first step to creating any change is deciding what you do want so that you have something to move toward.

- Tony Robbins

source: Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

topic: Wise, Moving, Creating, Creating Change

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

- Seth Godin

topic: Leadership, Believe, Creating, Creating Change

Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice, being able to shape the future. Women's absence from decision-making positions has deprived the country of a necessary perspective.

- Madeleine M. Kunin

topic: Country, Voice, Creating, Economic Power, Creating Change

I am too old to think that numbers are creating change

- Tariq Ramadan

topic: Thinking, Creating, Numbers, Creating Change