Change Quotes

“Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance." Benjamin Disraeli

"What one thing would you change about your life? People always have an answer for what would make their life better." What Would You Change?

"Wisdom is unchanging! Information and ideas, technology and techniques, practices and habits, fashions and perceptions change frequently, but the wisdom of the 17th or 18th century is still wisdom in the 21st century and will still be wisdom in the 23rd century. If it changes, it wasn't wisdom. Wisdom is unchanging and timeless." contributed by: Brian D. Kennedy

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." C. G. Jung

"Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." John F.Kennedy

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." Confucius

"It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." Marilyn Ferguson

"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." Confucius

"Life is easy, change is easy, and everything is easy. If only this was true." Byron Pulsifer, from The Greeting Card That Woke Me Up

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." George Bernard Shaw

"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

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." Alfred North Whitehead

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." Alexander Graham Bell

"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself." Norman Vincent Peale

"The absurd man is he who never changes." Auguste Barthelemy

"It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today." Isaac Asimov

"You have to stop to change direction." Eric Fromm

"There is nothing permanent except change." Heraclitus

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." Gail Sheehy

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning." Ivy Baker Priest

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." Leo Tolstoy

"Everything changes but change." Zangwill

"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."Robert C. Gallagher

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

"Every really new idea looks crazy at first." Alfred North Whitehead "It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." James Gordon

"Often times the only change people like is when the change makes a noise in their pocket." Author Unknown

"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." William James

"The absurd man is he who never changes." Augeste Barthélemy

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." Harold Wilson

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

"All is flux; nothing stays still." Heraclitus

"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time." Marian Wright Edelman

"Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep." William Cullen Bryant

"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing." R. D. Laing

"Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast." Tom Peters

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." W. Edwards Deming

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." J. F. Kennedy

“Repeatedly, we attempt the impossible and try to change other people - but attempting this is a waste of time!" Catherine Pulsifer

"Change your thoughts, and you change your world." Norman Vincent Peale

"Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change." Catherine Pulsifer

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." Henri Bergson

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal." Arthur Schopenhauer

"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." William James

"We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped." Lyman Lloyd Bryson

Change is Good

"Life is a progress, and not a station." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, ''I've had it! I know I'm much more than I'm demonstrating mentally, emotionally, and physically in my life'.' I made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less than I can be." Anthony Robbins

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin

"None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives." Kathleen Norris