Change Quotes and Sayings

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

"Change is inevitable . . . adapting to change is unavoidable, it's how you do it that sets you together or apart." William Ngwako Maphoto

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

"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

"If you want to help someone change, they must first want to change. If they do not want to change it is the same thing as leading a horse to water." Byron Pulsifer, I Wanted To Change The World

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

You can choose to change, or you can remain where you are doing what you have always done. Byron Pulsifer, The Wooden Bowl Message

"Every really new idea looks crazy at first." Alfred North Whitehead

"Change always comes bearing gifts. Price Pritchett

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." Colin Wilson

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." Maya Angelou

"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." William Blake

"How can you change your attitude? When dealing with a situation try and find the good in it." Catherine Pulsifer, How To Change Your Attitudes

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." Charles F. Kettering

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

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

"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 "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

"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 Yourself

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

"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

"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

"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

"Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change." Joyce Meyer, eat the cookie. . .buy the shoes

"One of the first things you need to do if you really are sincere about changing your life, career or anything else for that matter, is to be open and honest with yourself in defining what it is that you want." Catherine Pulsifer, May Is Not Just For Flowers

"Everything changes
but change."
Zangwill

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

"All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours."
Julia Cameron, Transitions