Change Quotes

Nothing stays the same. These quotes explore transformation, growth, and the courage to start over.

27059 quotes

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"We must make a choice between the policies of the past and the promise of the future."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Democracy is not a static thing, it is an everlasting march."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"The mediocre person fears change; the strong person welcomes it."
Benito Mussolini
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"A revolution is certainly the most authoritative thing there is."
Vladimir Lenin
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"The revolution will not be beautiful; it will be harsh and necessary."
Vladimir Lenin
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"The revolution must be permanent or it will perish."
Vladimir Lenin
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"A revolution that does not transform daily life is merely a palace coup."
Vladimir Lenin
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"The revolution is not an event but a process of continuous transformation."
Vladimir Lenin
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"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."
Nelson Mandela
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"Sport has the power to change the world."
Nelson Mandela
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"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
Winston Churchill
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"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
Winston Churchill
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"The price of defending any old institution is to reform it."
Winston Churchill
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"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be"
Jorge Edwards
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"The obstacles in our path are not blocking us, they are directing us"
Jorge Edwards
"I believe that what self-centered man has torn down, other-centered man can build up."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Lightning makes no thunder without blood and pain."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Change has its enemies, for the reason that the profits accrued to some from the present system are colossal."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"The only sure thing about the future is that it will astonish us."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"We have always held to the hope that bad luck, in one form or another, could be cured by a change in government."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present."
Abraham Lincoln
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"Change is not evolution; it is often a violent rupture with what came before."
Jorge Edwards
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"It is never too late to give up our prejudices."
Nelson Mandela
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"The future is literally in our hands to shape."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Whatever has happened to you has shaped who you are, and you need those experiences to ultimately become who you're meant to be."
Eleanor Roosevelt