Change Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Change
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It's all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
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 (Serenity Prayer)
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest roadblock to a great relationship
is trying to force a partner to change through bribes or threats.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Your life is the manifestation of your dream;
it is an art.
You can change your life anytime if
you aren't enjoying the dream.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Constant development is the law of life,
and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas
in order to appear consistent
drives himself into a false position.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Give a man one rabbit, and he will eat for a day;
give a man two rabbits, and he will
feed his family and his neighbors
and return you 64,768 rabbits in change.
- Anonymous
I don't believe in the after life,
although I am bringing a change of underwear.
- Woody Allen
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As a rock star, I have two instincts,
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
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