Change Quotes

"Today is the first day of August; it is no longer July. Summer passes, and Summer friends will melt away like snow in spring."

- Rolf van der Wind

"August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know."

- Tove Jansson

"August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies."

- Rasmenia Massoud

"August is that last flicker of fun before the night arrives."

- Gemma Gary

"August slipped through, and September came, green as ever..."

- L.M. Montgomery

"This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand."

- Sara Baume

"When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away."

- Sarah Helen Whitman

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

- Barack Obama

"My life’s long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my pathway I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold Has heralded her presence, but a vast Sweet calm that comes not till the year has passed Its fevered solstice, and a tinge of gold Subdues the vivid coloring of bold And passion-hued emotions. I will cast My August days behind me with my May, Nor strive to drag them into Autumn’s place, Nor swear I hope when I do but remember. Now violet and rose have had their day, I’ll pluck the soberer asters with good grace And call September nothing but September."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"I am here to tell you that whatever you think your dream is now, it will probably change. And that’s okay."

- Conan O'Brien

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man."

- Heraclitus

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."

- Henry Ford

"I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn’t like it, and changed."

- David Sedaris

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

- Steven Hayes

"As the June light turns to moonlight, I'll be on my way."

- The Beatles

"Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?"

- Anita Desai

"Shut Up About Destiny And How People Can't Change!"

- Naruto Uzumaki

"Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world."

- Howard Zinn

"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being."

- Lee Iacocca

"You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk"

- Louise Smith

"You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution."

- Malcolm X

"I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin..."

- Malcolm X

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change is they are to get better."

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

"It is important to understand that big changes, the kind that transform the way human beings handle being human, start with small changes."

- Naomi Warren, z”l

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

"Don’t be afraid to be a little bit rebellious, darling. Sometimes the best change comes from shaking things up."

"If you change the way you look at things the things you look at will change"

"If you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done"