Top 100 Quotes About Change Happens
#1. Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn't. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change ... but change happens in a heartbeat!
Andy Andrews
#2. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
Irin Carmon
#3. When real substantive change happens it's the people who watch your show, they're the ones that make it happen. It's people whose names are not highlighted in history books. They're the ones that stand up in their place and time to make change.
Tom Morello
#5. Of the three, the third trait - the idea that epidemics can rise or fall in one dramatic moment - is the most important, because it is the principle that makes sense of the first two and that permits the greatest insight into why modern change happens the way it does. The
Malcolm Gladwell
#6. Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.
Eknath Easwaran
#7. Significant and seemingly impossible social and political change happens more often than we think, and it happens more rapidly than we realize. Even the most momentous change is always possible if one finds the right way to make it happen.
Glenn Greenwald
#8. Christian adults need to think about talking to our own children as a form of cross-cultural missions. Cultural change happens so quickly that teens are exposed to ideas and worldviews very different from those of previous generations.
Nancy Pearcey
#9. Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties
Timothy Keller
#11. We're leading people to Jesus, not to ourselves or to our awesome church. Keeping the focus on Christ ensures that genuine life change happens and lasts.
Carey Nieuwhof
#13. But like it or not, change happens and, like most things in life, doesn't really happen /to us/ - it just happens.
David Kessler
#14. Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.
Geneen Roth
#15. Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
Jane Goodall
#16. It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.
Harry Callahan
#17. Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.
Debbie Ford
#18. You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it's vital that a change happens now.
Mos Def
#19. Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.
Tony Robbins
#20. Change happens slowly. And it only happens one person at a time, one day at a time.
Katie Kacvinsky
#23. Making this a better world happens one person at a time. You cannot force your beliefs on anyone. Rather, be the example that others can emulate. Live your life so that others may be inspired by your words and deeds. That's how change happens.
Tom Giaquinto
#24. Change happens when we stop looking for off-the-shelf answers to our one-of-a-kind challenges. The authors of Change Anything, The New Science of Personal Success
Gregory Anne Cox
#25. And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
Libba Bray
#26. Change doesn't happen just because we think something is wrong. Change happens because we think something is wrong and then don't stop fighting until it's right.
Liza Palmer
#27. Real change rarely comes from the front of the line. It happens from the middle or even the back. Real change happens when someone who cares steps up and takes what feels like a risk. People follow because they want to, not because you can order them to.
Seth Godin
#28. Change happens when people actively participate; lip service is what happens when people don't.
Nancy Ruth
#29. When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.
Andy Stanley
#30. Everybody wants a change and change happens in the life of everybody each day, but not all changes are preferable
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#31. Action is only taken when one needs change. Change happens when action is needed to make a positive impact. Ones reaction to change is what determines the outcome.
Lorenzo Victory
#32. When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!
Kirsten Gillibrand
#33. Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.
Spencer Johnson
#34. Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.
Shakti Gawain
#35. Great change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over & release control over what you don't.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#36. You can't change what you haven't realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.
Byron Katie
#37. The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.
Bernie Sanders
#38. If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.
Howard Zinn
#39. Change happens through movement and movement heals.
Joseph Pilates
#40. When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation
not resistance, not warfare, not fights.
Geneen Roth
#41. Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.
Tony Robbins
#42. Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.
Hill Harper
#43. We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.
Eckhart Tolle
#46. Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.
Cheryl Strayed
#47. Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.
Pierre Omidyar
#48. As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.
Michelle Bachelet
#49. Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.
Mike Ferguson
#52. Sure there's a percentage of people who are like, "It snowed in May. I don't believe in climate change." Well, that's crazy, but that's always gonna be the case. I suppose if climate change happens much faster than even the dire experts predict, then I suppose opinions will change.
Chuck Klosterman
#53. Change happens whether you want it to or not. And sometimes, like now, it's for the best.
Jen Calonita
#54. Sometimes great change happens only after the worst change occurs. Negativity can be the start point of positivity. Destruction can lead to creation. It's not hopeless; darkness is the birthplace of hope.
Emily Maroutian
#55. Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.
Geneen Roth
#56. Change happens internally. That's where books go too. Therein lies the power.
Nina Joshi Ramsey
#57. Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.
Andrew Evans
#58. It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can 'take over' as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.
Margaret Mahy
#59. I can tell you, Jay, nothing that happens in this life is worth killing yourself over. Time passes, and you can decide to change your future. You don't let what some assholes say or do, direct you. In this life, it only matters what you do with it.
Nicole Reed
#60. Each scene in your story, ask yourself, If I cut it out, would anything that happens afterward change?
Lisa Cron
#61. I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.
Cassandra Clare
#62. At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life.
Ray Rhodes
#63. When you feel yourself resisting differences, lean into them, instead,
and have fun with what happens.
Gina Greenlee
#64. It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime ...
Khaled Hosseini
#65. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.I guess that means I've grown up now ...
Cassandra Clare
#66. A lot of things have changed and will change, I can only wish you the best as it happens.
Malice
Courtney Winnie
#67. Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
Gloria Steinem
#68. When you choose to live a generous life, you start to change and so does the world around you. Something incredible happens when giving becomes your own idea, not something you do out of duty or obligation.
Brad Formsma
#69. Until the fear of separation is faced there can be only a life of illusion, where nothing real can exist. Until this happens there can be no knowing the stillness of peace, which is to change, in the very near future, for all humanity. The illusion of separateness can not continue to exist.
Donna Guillemette
#70. The major part of our species seems able to undergo any trauma without significantly re-examining its household mantras, including "everything happens for a reason," "the show must go on," "accept the things you cannot change," and any other adage that gets people to keep their chins up.
Thomas Ligotti
#71. Just remember sweetie, sometimes we can;t change what happens, but we can change how we let those things affect us.
C.C. Hunter
#72. It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.
Kate Bush
#73. Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.
David Eddings
#74. You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.
Robert Griffin III
#75. Films really can change a conversation and change someone's thinking and perception, especially with people of color at the center. It rarely happens. I think it's important for both the community but also the world to see people of color in all genres, especially love stories.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#76. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
Barbara Sher
#77. As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.
Tony Robbins
#78. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
Chris Prentiss
#79. 'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.
Deborah Moggach
#80. I think that most of us can identify with the change that happens to Bruce Banner. We all have a little of both inside us. I think this is an important theme in defining the character.
Herb Trimpe
#81. Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
Sarah Dessen
#82. Love is a mystery. We embrace it where we can. Mostly we do not choose whom we love. It just happens. A voice speaks to us, in ways the ears cannot hear. We recognize a beauty the eye does not see. We experience a change in our hearts that no voice can describe.
David Gemmell
#83. To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.
Eckhart Tolle
#84. Whatever happens, I will not let my cheerfulness be disturbed. Being unhappy won't get me anywhere and will dissipate all my goodness. Why be unhappy about something if you can change it? And if you can't, how will being unhappy help?
Shantideva
#85. The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think that they rule only by the will of Jesus, and that nothing happens without the permission of the Lamb of God.
J.C. Ryle
#86. With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it. A tiny set of genetic variations divides us from the Neanderthals, but that has made all the difference.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#87. Change is possible if you allow it to happen. Nothing in life is constant; it's always evolving and that's how life happens for me. Through my adversities I can reach new heights.
Chimnese Davids
#88. I learned something very important early on: You accept what happens and move on. In other words, if I hit a bad shot, I can't change it. There is only the next shot. That was a big lesson.
Billy Casper
#89. You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world. You always have been.
Joss Whedon
#90. Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.
Amy Winehouse
#91. It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.
Pico Iyer
#92. Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
Marianne Williamson
#93. Coincidence is just the hand of God who pushes you on the right track. That path will lead your steps towards an epiphany that will change your life. Don't believe in coincidences, believe in the righteousness of everything that happens to you.
Irina Serban
#94. Change is superficial. Transformation is deep. It alters our perception of reality and therefore causes everything in our life to shift. Transformation is what happens when we live our life rather than analyze it.
Frank Natale
#95. Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming ... it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. Climate change - it happens, with or without our help.
Roy Spencer
#96. Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
Anthony De Mello
#97. Here in this old palace, untouched by the winds of change, here maybe some magic happens, for a little while. But the day must come when she will walk the road across the lake, and on that day, in the sad, heartless world on the other shore, you know it cannot last she is a slave.
John Speed
#98. When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.
Ed Greenwood
#99. He best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.
John McGahern
#100. I wonder why people wanted someone very badly, I wonder why someone comes in your life and life begins to change, every good happens to you, and you just want that person to never go from your life, remain there for you
Shaikh Ashraf
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