Change Quotes

Change is what people fear most.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Change means the unknown.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Nature's mighty law is change.

~ Robert Burns

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change not destruction which takes place.

~ Florence Nightingale

The old order changeth yielding place to new and God fulfills himself in many ways.

~ Alfred

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

~ Lois Wyse

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

~ Leo Tolstoy

One person's constant is another person's variable.

~ Susan Gerhart

The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.

~ Bertolt Brecht

It's a bad plan that can't be changed.

~ Publilius Syrus

In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.

~ Edna O'brien

Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

~ Margery Allingham

It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs it is the parting.

~ Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing. When we have made it the next wish is to change again.

~ Samuel Johnson

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

~ Jane Howard

The hearts of great men can be changed.

~ Homer

You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.

~ Heraclitus

A man's fortune must first be changed from within.

~ Chinese Proverb

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.

~ Henry George

Without imagination nothing is dangerous.

~ Georgette Leblanc

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

~ Katherine Mansfield

The moment of change is the only poem.

~ Adrienne Rich

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...

~ Erica Jong

As we learn we always change and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.

~ Hyemeyohsts Storm

We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

~ Lyman Lloyd Bryson

One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

~ Anaïs Nin

When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

~ Helen Keller

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

~ Woodrow Wilson

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

The longer you blame the mirror, the longer you throw away the power to change what it is reflecting.

~ Steve Maraboli

In the case of Tunisia, it was indeed this single act that sparked what had been long-standing active protest movements and moved them forward. But that's not so unusual. Let's look at our own history. Take the civil rights movement. There had been plenty of concern and activism about violent repression of blacks in the South, and it took a couple of students sitting in at a lunch counter to really set it off. Small acts can make a big difference when there is a background of concern, understanding, and preliminary activism.

~ Noam Chomsky

If you cannot change your circumstances, then change your attitude.

~ Mark W. Boyer

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognize

~ Marguerite Duras

The hugest changes were the ones that could not be seen – that’s where the real apocalypse lay: in people’s hearts, their souls, their beings.

~ Dianna Hardy

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

~ Peter Drucker

It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.

~ Shari Arison

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

~ Andrea Jung

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

~ Jack Welch

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

~ Bill Gates