Quotes about Change

"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

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

"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

"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