Andre Malraux Quotes

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

Knowing you need to make a change isn't enough. You've got to find the guts to do it.

There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

When I came into the oil there was chaos. I brought order…. It was done the way it was because that was the way it had to be done.

It’s time for change. It’s time for someone smart enough to know, strong enough to do, sure enough to lead...

Urgency is unbelievably important when you're talking about, not little changes, but big changes.

The world is changing, but it is not changing on its own.

The future for us is not to go bigger but to go different.

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

I didn't come to stay. I came to make a difference.

You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world. You always have been.

What we call results are beginnings.

The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.

All it takes is a single moment.

We know what needs to be done - all that is missing is the will to do it.

If you do things the same way you've always done them, you'll get the same outcomes you've always gotten. In order to change your outcomes, you've got to do things differently.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

You can change things, you can make things better.

If there's anything you're not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.