Change

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Alfred Tennyson

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Mignon McLaughlin

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

If you had a chance to change your fate, would you?

Princess Merida

We're either getting better or we're getting worse.

David Goggins

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

Loss is nothing else than change, and change is Nature's delight.

Marcus Aurelius

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Euripides

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Marcel Proust

Change can be so constant, you don’t even feel the difference until there is one.

George

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

…there is a possiblity within each moment for change to occur, for good things to happen.

Kevin Henkes

Analyze your schedule, kill your empty habits, burn out the bullshit, and see what's left.

David Goggins

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Alfred North Whitehead

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

The risk it takes remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom.

Anais Nin

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

Bryant McGill

There is nothing like returing to a place that remains unchanged to find how you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Misattributed to Often credited to Mark Twain or Albert Einstein; earliest documented in Narcotics Anonymous literature (1981)

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.

Maya Angelou

My heart can take the pounding. My mind can handle the grind. But my body knows it's time to say goodbye.

Kobe Bryant

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It’s unreliable levers that are the problem.

Terry Pratchett

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Nelson Mandela

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Dorothy Day

Disobedience is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Oscar Wilde

Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?

Amy Tan

There comes a day when I don’t have to be a Princess. No rules, no expectations. A day where anything can happen. A day where I can change my fate.

Princess Merida

I'm haunted by my future goals, not my past failures. I'm haunted by what I may still become. I'm haunted by my own continued thirst for evolution.

David Goggins

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.

Margaret Atwood

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever injured.

Marcus Aurelius

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

Sun Tzu

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

John Steinbeck

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Bill Gates

There are those who say fate is something beyond our command. That destiny is not our own, but I know better. Our fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it.

Princess Merida