Change Quotes

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
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.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Change before you have to.
Change brings opportunity.
Change in all things is sweet.
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Change is such hard work.
Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.
Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
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.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Things do not change; we change.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
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.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
When you are through changing, you are through.
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
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.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.