Change Quotes

We are often at odds with our wise and loving Lord because the change he is working on is not the change we have dreamt about. We dream about change in it, while God is working in the midst of it to change us.

~ Timothy D. Lane

I knew that change was coming, the way you know things you can't see, by feeling them; by instinct. The way the bees know everything they know.

~ Kathe Koja

Embraced in Isaac’s wings, I decided that change wasn’t such a bad thing. It actually gave flight to a whole new world I couldn’t wait to explore.

~ Cherie Colyer

When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right.

~ Rebecca Mckinsey

Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the Holy Prophet (may God bless and give him Peace!) and his noble Companions and their Followers (blessing and peace be upon them all!) and the faith and practice of genuine Muslims after them; and they also refer to the self and mean its return to its original nature and religion (Islam).

~ Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

I like the idea of differenttheres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass,a Bronx where people talklike violets smell. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehowkind, perhaps in the nookof a cousin universe I've never defiled or betrayedanyone.

~ Bob Hicok

I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason.

~ Michael Cunningham

People tend to resist a change into something new and different.But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.

~ Toba Beta

Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.

~ M. Ageyev

It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today.

~ Terry Crowley

One of the great constants in life is change.

~ Heracleitus

Change was not something you waited for, quietly, mutely, in a house by the ocean, nothing would ever change unless we forced it into shape.

~ Andrew Sean Greer

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference. I still didn't know the difference.

~ Betsy Lerner

This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great crises became hinges on which American history swung in dramatically new directions. But events on the same scale, or nearly so, no longer seem to have that power; moneyed interests may have become too entrenched, elites too self-seeking, institutions too feeble, and the public too polarized and passive for the country to be shocked into fundamental change.

~ George Packer

My interest in Sufism began when I was a college student. At the time, I was a rebellious young woman who liked to wrap several shawls of ‘-isms’ around her shoulders: I was a leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, anarcho-pacifist…I wasn’t interested in any religion and the difference between ‘religiosity’ and ‘spirituality’ was lost to me. Having spent some time of my childhood with a loving grandmother with many superstitions and beliefs, I had a sense the world was not composed of solely material things and there was more to life than I could see. But the truth is, I wasn’t interested in understanding the world. I only wanted to change it.

~ Elif Shafak

It's not enough that you move through the world - you must change it to suit your expectations.

~ Michael Stein

The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civility, to fish there as often as he chose while he continued in the neighbourhood, offering at the same time to supply him with fishing tackle, and pointing out those parts of the stream where there was usually most sport. Mrs. Gardiner, who was walking arm in arm with Elizabeth, gave her a look expressive of her wonder. Elizabeth said nothing, but it gratified her exceedingly; the compliment must be all for herself. Her astonishment, however, was extreme; and continually was she repeating, Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for me, it cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened. My reproofs at Hunsford could not work such a change as this. It is impossible that he should still love me.

~ Jane Austen

Everything changes your life.

~ Melanie Tem

Evolution is necessary for ones progress…. resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey.

~ Jon Scott

Growth is a part of change.

~ Toba Beta

Immeasurable change is nobody's merit.

~ Toba Beta

Change is never convenient. I'm talking about acceptance here. Don't be misguided into thinking change is going to be easy. If you're facing change then you're challenging a norm, your norm. You've adapted to that and now it's being challenged. It's being turned inside out and upside down. You may feel that can't quite find your footing. It's all foreign. You may feel lost in it, quite unsure of yourself, unsure of what to do, or how to do it. Don't worry. Everything new was once like this, and you made it through. You'll find a way. Have faith. Keep hope in your heart. If you want to get to the other side of anything you need to work through and endure change. It can be awkward and uncomfortable. Change is never comfortable. It takes time and patience. It takes self-love and acceptance. It takes grace and self-forgiveness. Take it one step at a time. Break it down. You'll make it to the other side.

~ Akiroq Brost

What is eternal is the cloud drifting slowly out of sight.

~ Marty Rubin

It's not you worries me. The king is a good man, and an old friend, but it has been a long time, and kings change. Even more than other people, kings change.

~ Peter S. Beagle

That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret.

~ Mitch Albom

Mentors change lives, but students change mentors’ lives more.

~ Richie Norton

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me.

~ Mitch Albom

that's what kills a man: lack of change.

~ Charles Bukowski

Things change. People change. Everything changes. The universe is in a flux. Energy reinventing itself constantly.

~ Gina Linko

I want to visit the snow in Antarctica before global warming turns it into a tropical paradise.

~ Steven Magee

Even the air seems to have a smell - earthy and rich and complicated, made out of things living nd things dying and things long dead. The smell of the world where nothing stops moving, nothing stays the same.

~ M.r. Carey

The winds of fortune tend to favour the sails of those who politely yell out to it, 'Nice to meet you!

~ Nabil Sabio Azadi

To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing to keep doing it

~ Brent M. Jones

To change the world, we must look inward. If we fill our hearts with peace and love, we will see the change.

~ Avina Celeste

Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something. Anything.

~ Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Inside of you, there is the power to change your world. Believe in good and you will find good.

~ Avina Celeste

Life won't change if your mind doesn't change. A better life comes with a better mind.

~ Avina Celeste

You're safe, it's only change.

~ Sheridan Jobbins

The fact that you are alive is what matters most because no matter what your situation is, you still have a chance to change it.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

Change comes about when you become what you are, not when you try to become what you are not.

~ Arnold R. Beisser