Change Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
Elon Musk

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

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

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

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

There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus

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

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

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

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

Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau

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

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

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers

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

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn

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

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

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

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.
Jon Bon Jovi

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius

There is nothing so stable as change.
Bob Dylan

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli

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 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

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

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

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

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.
Gilda Radner

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

Change before you have to.
Jack Welch

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

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

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

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.
Frank Zappa

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

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov

Change brings opportunity.
Nido Qubein

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Clint Eastwood

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
Jack Layton

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
Gillian Anderson

Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle

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

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

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

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

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
Jimi Hendrix

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

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

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

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

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

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

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Robert Anthony

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

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

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

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
William James

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ignorance is always afraid of change.
Jawaharlal Nehru

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

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

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

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

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
Anna Quindlen

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
John Locke

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

Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
Keri Russell

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.
Enya

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

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

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

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

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

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

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.
Steve Jobs

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

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

Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Soren Kierkegaard

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
Herodotus

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

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

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

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

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

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

Taste may change, but inclination never.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Mason Cooley

Change is such hard work.
Billy Crystal

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

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
James G. Frazer

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

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.

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.
Leo Tolstoy

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

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Stephen Hawking

True change takes place in the imagination.
Unknown

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

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

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

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

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke

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

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia

All things are only transitory.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
Phil Crosby

I’m a catalyst for change. You can’t be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.
Rupert Murdoch

Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus

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

Change is tough, people don’t like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.
Christopher Bond

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

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
Alvin Toffler

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

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

A hero is someone right who doesn’t change.
George Foreman

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
Temple Grandin

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

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

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

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
May Sarton

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

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

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

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

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

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