50 of the Best Quotes about Change | Page 3 of 5

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

(1895 – 1983, American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist)

Quote visualisation: They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself – Andy Warhol

Image: Elena Schälike

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

(1898 – 1993, American minister and author)

After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years,
look it over carefully.
After five years,
look at it with suspicion.
And after ten years,
throw it away and start all over.
Alfred Edward Perlman
Comment which appeared in the New York Times on July 3, 1958

(1902 – 1983, American railroad executive; president of the Penn Central Transportation Company)

When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor Frankl

(1905 – 1997, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist)

In any given moment we have two options:
to step forward into growth or step back into safety.
Abraham Maslow

(1908 – 1970, American psychologist; best known for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs)

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

(1910 – 1997, Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary)

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.
Sido L. Ridolfi

(1913 – 2004, American Democratic Party politician)

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

(1917 – 1963, American politician; 35th President of the United States)

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

(1918 – 2013, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader)

The pessimist complains about the wind;
the optimist expects it to change;
the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward

(1921 – 1994, American writer of inspirational maxims)