Change Quotes

Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it.
     - Author Unknown -                                                                      

Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.
     - Author Unknown -      

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
     - Benjamin Disraeli -

When you're finished changing, you're finished.
     - Benjamin Franklin -

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
     - Bertolt Brecht -

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
     - Bill Copeland -

Change is such hard work.
     - Billy Crystal -

When you are through changing, you are through.
     - Bruce Barton -

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
     - Bruce Barton -

The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
     - C.S. Lewis -

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
     - C. S. Lewis -

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
     - Carl Jung -

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
     - Frederick Douglass -

People don't change.  Only their costumes do. 
     - Gene Moore -

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me.  The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. 
     - George Bernard Shaw -

I put a dollar in one of those change machines.  Nothing changed. 
     - George Carlin -

Stubborness does have its helpful features.  You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. 
     - Glen Beaman -

It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never be the same.
     - Gwyneth Paltrow -

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
     - Harrison Ford -

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

Things do not change; we change.
     - Henry David Thoreau -

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
     - Henry Ellis -

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. 
     - Henry Miller -

Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
     - Keri Russell -

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
     - King Whitney Jr. -

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. 
     - Kurt Lewin -

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril. 
     - Laurens van der Post -

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

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. 
     - Lynn Hall -

Be the change you want to see in the world.
     - Mahatma Gandhi -

We must become the change we want to see.
     - Mahatma Gandhi -

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. 
     - Marcel Proust -

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
     - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus -

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
     - Margaret Mead -

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
     - Maria Robinson -

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
     - Martha Beck -

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 -

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

The key to change... is to let go of fear.
     - Rosanne Cash -

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
     - Rupert Murdoch -

Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world.  Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining. 
     - Saigyo -

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are.  For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained.  Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. 
     - Saint Augustine -

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
     - Shunryu Suzuki -

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
     - Stanislaw Lec -               

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
     - Swami Sivananda -

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. 
     - Victor Frankl -

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

We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
     - W.H. Auden -

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse!  As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.  
     - Washington Irving -

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

Change starts when someone sees the next step.
     - William Drayton -

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. 
     - William H. Seward -

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.
     - William Somerset Maugham -

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
     - Winston Churchill -

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. 
     - Woodrow Wilson -