Change Quotes

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
- Agnetha Faltskog -

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

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully.  After five years, look at it with suspicion.  And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. 
- Alfred Edward Perlman -

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.
- Anatole France -

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! 
- Andre Gide -

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
- Andy Warhol -

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
- Anthony Brandt -

Change in all things is sweet.
- Aristotle -

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
- Arnold Bennett -

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. 
- Arthur Schopenhauer -

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- Arthur Schopenhauer -

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicates nothing but the changeableness of the weather. 
- Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare -

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
- Author Unknown -

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.
- Carl T. Rowan -

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
- Carol Burnett -

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

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
- Charles R. Swindoll -

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
- Christina Baldwin -

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

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
- Confucius -

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. 
- Confucius, Analects -

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius -

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
- Dean Acheson -

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.
- Denise McCluggage -

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

Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
Tomorrow be today.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus -

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
- Hugh Prather -

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
- Ian Botham -

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
- Irene Peter -

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
- Irene Peter –

Change before you have to.
- Jack Welch -

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
The birds are molting.  If only man could molt also - his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. 
- James Allen -

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
- James Gordon, M.D. -

Esther Dyson A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
- James Levine -

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
- Mary Douglas -

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. 
- Mary Engelbreit -

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

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.
- Meg Ryan –

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
- Meryl Streep -

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
- Michael Fry and T. Lewis -

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times. 
- Michel Montaigne -

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
- Mignon McLaughlin -

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. 
- Mignon McLaughlin –

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas Gandhi -

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
- Nathaniel Branden -

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