11,582 Quotes About Change

Change is the one constant in life.

What’s wrong with being optimistic? What’s wrong in believing people can change for the better? What’s wrong with encouraging a bright outlook? What’s wrong with trying to help someone change for the better—to better themselves?

Nothing happens as quickly as we want them to. A lot of people are easily discouraged and slip back into their old habits, but that’s the reason we surround ourselves with people who are supportive, to help us want to keep moving when we’re at our weakest points.

We are born in one day, we die in one day, we can change in one day, anything can happen in one day.

Only those who show up have a right to speak up.

If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to understand the power of an ordinary human being to perform the seemingly impossible in the life of another human being. And how can that experience do anything less than drive me to try and make the world smile.

Change affects us all in different ways. It'll get easier as more time passes.

Keep on reinventing yourself.

We cannot undo what we've done; we cannot go back in time. Change - ecological, economic, social - is inevitable. Some of it will be tragic. We will lose things we love - species, places, relationships with the nonhuman world that have endured for millennia. Some change will be hard to predict. Ecosystems will reshuffle, species will evolve. We will change too.