George Gurdjieff Quotes

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

It's so crazy to look at your life and see how far you've come.

When you are through changing, you are through.

I think everybody has the capacity for change.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

If you're not changing, you're not growing; you're not being present. Change is essential.

I'm ever-changing and always evolving, always trying new things.

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

People have to evolve.

Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Life is a work in progress.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.