Change Quotes

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

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 does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

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

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs

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

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

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

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
John Lennon

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

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

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

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

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy

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

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

 Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Bertolt Brecht

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
Tupac Shakur

Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Will Smith

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill

Change before you have to.
Jack Welch

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
Esther Dyson

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

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson

Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle

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

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
Sting

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Robert Kennedy

There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus

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.
John A. Simone, Sr.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Tony Robbins

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

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert

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

Change brings opportunity.
Nido Qubein

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

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

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Peter Marshall

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.
R. D. Laing

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

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung

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

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

 Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Francis Bacon

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

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
Bryant H. McGill

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Denis Waitley

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
Joel Osteen

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus Aurelius

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

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy

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

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

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
Julie Walters

All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
Sydney J. Harris

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

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

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

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

Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell Lowell

The more things change, the more they are the same.
Alphonse Karr

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

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
William Glasser

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

All I want to do is change the world.
W. Clement Stone

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Douglas Horton

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
Barbara Sher

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
Armistead Maupin

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Timothy Leary

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.
Robert Anthony

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor

Change is such hard work.
Billy Crystal

To change what you get you must change who you are.
Vernon Howard

 In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

J. Paul Getty

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.
Enya

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

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Katherine Mansfield

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Nikos Kazantzakis

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

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

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
Victoria Woodhull

People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman

True change takes place in the imagination.
Thomas Moore

I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
Gianni Versace

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Maxwell Maltz

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
Katherine Mansfield

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
William C. Bryant

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
Eleanor Clift

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
Andrea Jung

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
Nancy Astor

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
Alice Meynell

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Owen Feltham 

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