Todays post is a reminder of what is required for change to happen, using 30 inspirational quotes from greater minds than our own.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing [him]self.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Margaret Mead

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.

Roy T. Bennett

Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.

Roy T. Bennett

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Albert Einstein

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao Tzu

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Andy Warhol

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

Erica Jong

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.

C. JoyBell C.

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

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it

Karl Marx

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

Steve Maraboli

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Libba Bray

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Mother Teresa

Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?

Diane Duane

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

Madonna

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Ovid

Change, like healing, takes time.

Veronica Roth

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

Brene Brown

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Haruki Murakami

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Socrates

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James