The Courage To Change Quotes

#1. Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the negatives - and having the courage to change what must be changed for the sake of the entire world.

Laurence Overmire

#2. That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our lives on the lines, you bastard!! If you don't have the courage to change things then you might as well just die!!!

Hiro Mashima

#3. Pause and remember - Change will happen the moment you have the courage to change.

Jennifer Young

#4. Here's a QBQ twist for all of us: God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know - it's me!

John G. Miller

#5. God, grant me serenity to accept those things I can't change, the courage to change those I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
-Division St.

Studs Terkel

#6. * We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.

Oren Lyons

#7. Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off!

Sarah Ferguson

#8. Better, Josef, far better, to have the courage to change your convictions. Duty and faithfulness are shams, curtains to hide behind. Self-liberation means a sacred no, even to duty.

Irvin D. Yalom

#9. We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. The path to joy and spiritual fulfilment requires the courage to change and grow.

A.G. Roemmers

#11. Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference - Alcoholics Anonymous

Stephen Covey

#12. There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

Rollo May

#13. Happiness wasn't something you found, happiness was something you made-by living in the moment, by cherishing the people in your life right now, by finding the courage to change those things you didn't like.

Laura Kaye

#14. The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable.

Wallace Nesbitt

#15. We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#16. May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference

Frank Ra

#17. We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. Time and again, Americans have seen the need for change, and have taken the initiative to bring that change to life.

Al Gore

#18. You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.

Hillary Clinton

#19. We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.

Brene Brown

#20. The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

Ruby Dee

#21. Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
he courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#22. Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

Euripides

#23. But some things did not change ...
Courage, for instance. Dedication to a cause. Comradeship. When they were strong and pure, when they came from deep in the bone, those qualities could hold fast against all odds.

Juliet Marillier

#24. This is what courage is. It's not just living through the nightmare, it's doing something with it afterward. It's being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It's trying to organize to change things.

Leslie Feinberg

#25. To progress isn't a little step, it's a pretty dramatic lifestyle change.

Auliq Ice

#26. So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.

Simon Sinek

#27. Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change

John Assaraf

#28. Sometimes I am stunned at my capacity as a nine-year-old, to understand my entrapment and escape it... Where did I find the courage to rebel, to change my life, live alone? I don't want to over-estimate all this, but damn it, I love that nine-year-old, whoever in hell he was.

Ray Bradbury

#29. Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change

Thomas S. Power

#30. People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

Malcolm Gladwell

#31. Courage is not my leading virtue. I've always avoided change of any sort, operating on the principle of safety first. I married a "safe" man. I've made my living performing humdrum work, work that bored other people so much that they'd pay someone else to do it.

Christina Bartolomeo

#32. We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.

Patti Digh

#33. She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic.

Nikki Rowe

#34. Courage changes things for the better ... [With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

#35. Anything can be changed by those who have the courage to blaze their own path.

Emily R. King

#36. It is about time to see within us a real change and let it happen as we have made before we start.

Auliq Ice

#37. Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.

Jasper Fforde

#38. In Christ we are given the courage and strength to change the world

Michael W. Smith

#39. It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.

Daisaku Ikeda

#40. God grant me the serentiy to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.

Kurt Vonnegut

#41. Not being "okay," is a gift. And inside that gift, is the strength to change and the courage to begin again.

Kirstin Leigh

#42. It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.

E.L. Konigsburg

#43. For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

Sarah Addison Allen

#44. The great soul is the person who has taken on the task of change. If he or she is able to transcend fear, to act out of courage, the whole group will benefit and each one, in his or her own life, will be suddenly more courageous, though they may not see how or why.

Gary Zukav

#45. If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather use your gift to help others find their own way to strength.

Anthony Liccione

#46. God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#47. Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won't change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

Dave Ramsey

#48. Pause and remember - At any moment you have the power to say 'this is enough' and radically change the course of your destiny. Have the faith and courage to follow your hearts calling.

Jennifer Young

#49. Finding one's place in the world is never easy.
Have courage and be true to who you are.
Remember, those who dare to be different are
Often the ones who change the world.

Christopher Paolini

#50. There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.

Moira Young

#51. Change will never happen if you lack the ability and courage to see yourself for who you really are.

Bryant McGill

#52. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Robert Kennedy

#53. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.
(Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)

Barack Obama

#54. In all her attempts to be brave and stay strong, she'd never realized it took more courage to change than to stay the same.

A.B. Harms

#55. the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, the wisdom to know the difference." Amy

Catherine Lea

#56. If you have Hope for a needed change ... Faith that it will happen someday & Courage to stand against all adversity and make it happen ... You have the dire tools to change the world!

Timothy Pina

#57. Nobody is going to come along and sprinkle magic fairy dust on you. If you want to change your life, you need to find the courage to stand up and fight.

Valerie Silveira

#58. The world is broken he said, how will you fix it?

I don't think anyone can fix it but we can teach ourselves & eachother to focus on the good and the important and maybe little by little this place won't feel so heavy.

Nikki Rowe

#59. It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.

Bud Harris

#60. I want to change things on my own terms, to show that there's no right or wrong way to change the world. There's no entry test. You don't need to suck anything up. Pay any dues. Just you and your anger and your voice is enough. If you only have the courage to use it.

Holly Bourne

#61. Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#62. But, my wolf, compassion is often mistaken for weakness when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it. The one thing I know that's even more powerful is the courage it takes to forge your own path, make your own mark and in doing so, make change.

Kristen Ashley

#63. Do not doubt your abilities. Do not delay your worthy impressions. With God's help, you cannot fail. He will give you the courage to participate in meaningful change and purposeful living.

Marvin J. Ashton

#64. When we become curious about the dissatisfying defaults in our world, we begin to recognize that most of them have social origins: Rules and systems were created by people. And that awareness gives us the courage to contemplate how we can change them. Before

Adam M. Grant

#65. We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.

Traudl Junge

#66. For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

Barack Obama

#67. One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.

Barbara De Angelis

#68. Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Charlton Heston

#69. Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Bryant H. McGill

#70. Unfortunately, unless we're focused on building up our courage, which gives us our self-confidence and all that we need to make quantum change in our lives, the voice of fear will always take the lead inside our minds.

Debbie Ford

#71. I thank God today she found the courage in her heart to love me enough so that someday I could tell you that even a black ex-con from Angola that stabbed a man could maybe someday do some good in the world if he gets a chance.

Ron Hall

#72. Delusional or not, maybe if I believe in a better world with enough conviction, and convince others to believe it as well, then it will be real.

Emilyann Girdner

#73. People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also ... but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.

Steve Maraboli

#74. If you have decided to change the world, don't read the books about the dimensions of the world! Be like a meteorite; strike the world with your ideas with utter courage and with infinite fearlessness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#75. The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

Nikki Haley

#76. The path to big, systemic change is collective action. That takes Sister Courage.

Gloria Feldt

#77. Open your mind a little, don't believe everything you hear, see or read, the world is so caught up in trying to avoid the topics that matter that you'll lose yourself trying to become like it.

Nikki Rowe

#78. In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "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. Thy will, not mine, be done.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#79. To change the world takes time; to change yourself takes courage.

R.S. Lowel

#80. Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be.
Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The Phoenix Shadow

Isaac Solomon

#81. We cannot change our destiny, we just have to have the courage to know what it is, and accept it. - Cinderpelt

Erin Hunter

#82. You have a rare fire within you. The power to change things. The courage to act in the service of something greater than yourself.

Moira Young

#83. Life's been one tough little shit, but there's a very obvious reason why she hasn't let me get too comfy, settle too long or sink too deep. She knows she has to kick me in the ass sometimes to get me moving on my journey.

Jennifer DeLucy

#84. Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference.

Paul Collier

#85. Society's collective fear of love must be faced if we are to lay claim to a love ethic that can inspire us and give us the courage to make necessary changes.

Bell Hooks

#86. It is through victims such as myself who still have a voice that the world will change to be a better place.

Catherine Jane Fisher

#87. God give me the strength to change the things I can change, the courage to let go of the things I need to let go and the wisdom to know the difference. - Bobby Dodge

Lisa Gardner

#88. Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#89. Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.

Shannon L. Alder

#90. Courage is fueled by the motivation to take the first step into the unknown.

Cheryl Nielsen

#91. Extraordinary change can happen in your life, but it will take extraordinary people, extraordinary courage and extraordinary faith to believe that this won't be a repeat of your past.

Shannon L. Alder

#92. True self-confidence is the courage to be open - to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source.

Carol S. Dweck

#93. If there is one thing that has made a difference in my life, it is the courage to turn and face what wants to change within me.

Elizabeth Lesser

#94. He didn't argue; she was no warrior. But he understood now it took a different kind of courage to accept what you could not change and try to make the best of it.

Stephanie Snow

#95. The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.

Rivera Sun

#96. Rules and systems were created by people. And that awareness gives us the courage to contemplate how we can change them.

Adam M. Grant

#97. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S. Truman

#98. It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

Alan Cohen

#99. The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#100. For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

Sharon Salzberg