Quotes on change
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
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John Steinbeck Quotes
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Francis Bacon Quotes
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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Ellen Glasgow Quotes
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Marcel Proust Quotes
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.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
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Author Unknown Quotes
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
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Lynn Hall Quotes
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Victor Frankl Quotes
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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Francis Bacon Quotes
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
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Stanislaw Lec Quotes
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
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Joan Wallach Scott Quotes
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.
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Michel Montaigne Quotes
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.
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Glen Beaman Quotes
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
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Kurt Lewin Quotes
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
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Confucius Quotes
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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William Blake Quotes
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.
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Alfred Edward Perlman Quotes
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Woodrow Wilson Quotes
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
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Charles Darwin Quotes
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.
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James Allen Quotes
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
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Irene Peter Quotes
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
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Ezra Pound Quotes
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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Harold Wilson Quotes
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
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Pauline R. Kezer Quotes
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.
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George Carlin Quotes
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
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Mary Engelbreit Quotes
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.
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Anatole France Quotes
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.
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Laurens van der Post Quotes
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
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Paul Valery Quotes
A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.
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Confucius Quotes
Things do not change; we change.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Change always comes bearing gifts.
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Price Pritchett Quotes
The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.
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Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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.
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Washington Irving Quotes
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.
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Shunryu Suzuki Quotes
Nowadays change is around every corner; in my day it was only around the expected ones.
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V.L. Allineare Quotes
Our only security is our ability to change.
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John Lilly Quotes
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
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Doug Horton Quotes
Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.
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Christopher Dodd Quotes