Quotes About Change

June 28, 2009

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

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. – W. Edwards

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

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw

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

Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine. – Robert C. Gallagher

If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change. – John A. Simone, Sr.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place. – Washington Irving

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

Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. – John Kenneth Galbraith

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. – Charles Dickens

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

Change always comes bearing gifts. – Price Pritchett

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. – Ellen Glasgow

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one’s eternal peril. – Laurens van der Post

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. – Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Growth is the only evidence of life. – John Henry Newman

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

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. – Faith Baldwin Quote

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. – James Allen

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. – Marcel Proust

“Bury me on my face,” said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, “Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.” – Diogenes 412BC-323BC, Greek philosopher

If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies. – Unknown


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