Quotes about change

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

— John Ruskin

All movements go too far.

— Bertrand Russell

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

— Nolan Ryan

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

— Marquis De Sade

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

— Sallust

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

— Caroline Schoeder

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

— Robert H. Schuller

We need to change so we can remain the same.

— Dorothy Serrity

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

— George Bernard Shaw

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

— P.K. Shaw

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

— Gail Sheehy

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

— Richard Shelton

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

— Barbara Sher

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

— Rex Steven Sikes

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

— Marsha Sinetar

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

— Socrates

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

— Susan Sontag

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

— Art Spander

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

— Herbert Spencer

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

— Anne Sophie Swetchine

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

— Publilius Syrus

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

— Thích Nhat Hanh

Things do not change, we do.

— Henry David Thoreau

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

— Bill Tilden

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

— Alvin Toffler

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

— Count Leo Tolstoy

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

— Count Leo Tolstoy

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

— Count Leo Tolstoy

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

— Brian Tracy

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

— Mo Udall

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

— Source Unknown

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

— Source Unknown

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

— Source Unknown

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

— Source Unknown

Constant change is here to stay.

— Source Unknown

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

— Source Unknown

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

— Source Unknown

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

— Source Unknown

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

— Source Unknown

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

— Source Unknown

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

— Source Unknown

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

— Source Unknown

The only people who like change are wet babies.

— Source Unknown

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

— Source Unknown

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

— Source Unknown

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

— Source Unknown

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

— Source Unknown

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

— Source Unknown

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

— Source Unknown

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

— Virgil

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

— Denis Waitley

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

— Denis Waitley

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

— Lech Walesa

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

— William A. Ward

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

— Alan W. Watts

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.

— H.G. Wells

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

— Lynn White

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

— Walt Whitman

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

— Oscar Wilde

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Harold Wilson

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

— Woodrow T. Wilson

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

— Kirsten Zambucka

Everything changes but change.

— Israel Zangwill

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just... come out the other side. Or you don't.

— Stephen King

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

— Source Unknown

I can Change the game cause Obama Said So

— BPBEE

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

— Nelson Mandela

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. Hoffer, Eric

— Eric Hoffer

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love.It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Even if jobless we should never be effortless. Dr Kenan Crnkic

— Source Unknown

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. . . . Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

— George Bernard Shaw

When we want to change, we first have to change who is around us

— Source Unknown