Change Quotes

"Very often, we see leaders lose sight of how they got to where they are: by being and thinking differently from the competition. They make it to first place, and then their thinking changes from seeking innovation to seeking the status quo. They think, I made it to first place, so now I must not change a thing. But change is what got them to the top in the first place! This is because they’re focused on the positive result rather than on the process of success."

- Georges St-Pierre

"Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing."

- Mandy Hale

"Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong."

- N.R. Narayana Murthy

"Life is about change. Sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time, it’s both."

- Kristin Kreuk

"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind."

- Maya Angelou

"Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution."

- Maya Angelou

"Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman."

- Maya Angelou

"There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past."

- Ernest J. Gaines

"And if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become."

- James Baldwin

"Social transformation is not measured in weeks or months, but in generation."

- Cicely Tyson

"Revolution is about change, and the first place the change begins is in yourself."

- Assata Shakur

"Change requires intent and effort. It really is that simple."

- Roxane Gay

"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Life means change; where there is no change, death comes."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The whole conversation is about how remote work is different, instead of being about the amazing tools we have at our disposal that remote teams and non-remote teams are able to use at any time. We have this opportunity to have a lot more freedom in our environment compared to when we had to be in an office, or even in school, 40 hours per week."

- Hiten Shah

"Suddenly my location was completely irrelevant to my ability to make a living."

- Bernard Vukas

"Remote work is the future of work."

- Alexis Ohanian

"Change is the essential process of all existence."

- Spock

"Change brings opportunities. You have to trust that new paths will emerge."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I wish it would stay this way forever. Fall mocks us with change."

- Olaf

"The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it."

- Omar Khayyam

"Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on."

- Elizabeth Scott

"Change is never easy, but always possible."

- Barack Obama

"Change has to come for life to struggle forward."

- Helen Hollick

"Be the change"

"Quit your job!"

"January: The month of opportunity, the month of inspiration, and the month of change."

"In January, the seeds of change begin to sprout."

"Change is inevitable, but January reminds us to steer it in a positive direction."

"I can make the changes I desire whenever I want."