Quotes about change page 16
“Small changes. Big differences”
Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Dean Koontz book One Door Away from Heaven
Geneva Davis; chapter 1, p. 8
Source: One Door Away from Heaven (2001)
Context: Change isn't easy, Micky. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think. Changing the way you think means changing what you believe about life. That's hard, sweetie. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.
“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Winston Churchill (June 23, 1925), His complete speeches, 1897–1963, edited by Robert Rhodes James, Chelsea House ed., vol. 4 (1922–1928), p. 3706. During a debate with Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden.
Often misquoted as: To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often.
Early career years (1898–1929)
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Abigail Adams (17 July 1775)
1770s
Source: Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.”
Ian McEwan book On Chesil Beach
Page 166.
Source: On Chesil Beach (2007)
“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
Gail Sheehy (1937) writer, biographer
“Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.”
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: God-Shaped Hole
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Variant: Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist
Source: Talking About a Revolution: Interviews with Michael Albert, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, bell hooks, Peter Kwong, Winona LaDuke, Manning Marable, Urvashi Vaid, and Howard Zinn
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
Diana Peterfreund (1979) American writer
Source: For Darkness Shows the Stars
“Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“.. to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.”
Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.”
Jonathan Lethem Motherless Brooklyn
Source: Motherless Brooklyn
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Smooth Talking Stranger
Anthony Doerr (1973) American writer
Source: Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”
Jessica Mitford (1917–1996) British writer and activist
Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Source: The Mountains of California
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
Tom Schulman (1950) American film director, screenwriter
Variant: No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world
Source: Dead Poets Society
“People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less”
Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride
Source: Along for the Ride
Andy Andrews (1959) author and corporate speaker
Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
“What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.”
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Books don’t change people; paragraphs do; sometimes even sentences.”
John Piper (1946) American writer
Variant: Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
Source: A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life
“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
“… when men like us do change, the change is profound.”
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: If You Deceive
Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Variant: Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's part of the risk.
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Ann M. Martin (1955) American writer of children's literature
Source: Dawn Saves the Planet
“The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.”
Matt Haig (1975) British writer
Source: The Humans
“Change isn't always for the best.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me
Variant: It's not such a bad thing. Change isn't always for the best.
Source: The Best of Me
“Try fighting with your head for a change…
it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“No, nothing can change my world
--Ichigo Kurosaki, Black Moon Rising”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
“People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”
Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care
Source: Handle with Care
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.”
Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer
“Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past”
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Love the One You're With
“Nothing is permanent but change.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
“Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.”
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: Heartbreaker
“… when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.”
Katherine Hannigan (1962) American artist and novelist
Source: Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
“How weird that must be, to stay the same as everyone else changes.”
Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More
Source: The Moon and More
“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
Bruce D. Perry (1955) American psychiatrist
Source: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.”
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
“Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
