Quotes on change
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
Steinbeck, John
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Bacon, Francis
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Glasgow, Ellen
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Proust, Marcel
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
Unknown, Author
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Frankl, Victor
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
Scott, Joan Wallach
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.
Montaigne, Michel
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
Lewin, Kurt
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Wilson, Woodrow
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.
Allen, James
I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.
Carlin, George
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.
Post, Laurens van der
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
Valery, Paul
A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.
Confucius
Change always comes bearing gifts.
Pritchett, Price
The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.
Nehru, Jawaharlal
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.
Irving, Washington
Nowadays change is around every corner; in my day it was only around the expected ones.
Allineare, V.L.
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Horton, Doug
Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.
Dodd, Christopher