Change Quotes

Change. It's happening all to time.

How to deal with change? How to change the situation?
How to change yourself?

Good times, bad times. Change is there to stay!

Enjoy these quotes on change and be inspired.

Tip: Read each quote one by one, slowly, paying attention to your breathing.


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

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Victor Frankl

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

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

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John Steinbeck

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


Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau

Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)

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

The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.
Jawaharlal Nehru

We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
W.H. Auden


Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
Joan Wallach Scott

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

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


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


If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
Saint Augustine


There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
Ezra Pound


Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
Paul Valery

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Maya Angelou
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Not from Charles Darwin

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
George Eliot

Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye...
Corinthians

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


If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin

Our only security is our ability to change.
John Lilly


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

To change your life:

Start immediately;

Do it flamboyantly;

No exceptions.

William James

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.
George Bernard Shaw


The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela 'A Long Walk to Freedom'

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

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

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


Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale


What can we take on trust
in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness,
pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
Euripides, Hecuba


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

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Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.
Lance Armstrong

Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.
W.H. Murray, The Story of Everest