QUOTES ABOUT CHANGE

Welcome to Quotes about change. I have compiled this list of famous quotes about change and changing your life, as an addition to the Quotes about moving on page on this website. Change is inevitable and often necessary, so embrace it with a positive outlook. Yes, that is easy to say, but for someone on the cusp of making a major change in ones life, it is never that easy, as a change often means leaving something behind, something once treasured. I hope you can find some inspiration, and for some, some solace, in the wise words below.

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QUOTES ABOUT CHANGE:

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.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Hugh Prather

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

It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

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

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Benjamin Disraeli

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson

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

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

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

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Change before you have to.
Jack Welch

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

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
Quote by Lynn Hall

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Henry Miller

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.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Author unknown, the quote is commonly misattributed to Charles Darwin

After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
Alfred Edward Perlman, New York Times, 3 July 1958

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

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
Quote by William H. Seward

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

You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation: If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish.
Unknown Author

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

When you are through changing, you are through.
Quote by Bruce Barton

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake

Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutability.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, from “Mutability”

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

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

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

Growth is the only evidence of life.
John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864

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

Irene Peter

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
William H. Seward

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

Change always comes bearing gifts.
Price Pritchett

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

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

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

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake

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

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck, from America and Americans

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

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know that it’s me.
Author Unknown

Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.
Glen Beaman

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.
George Carlin

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

Quote by Harrison Ford

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
John Ciardi

Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
Tomorrow be today.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Mignon McLaughlin,  from The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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

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

Our only security is our ability to change.
John Lilly

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

Quote by Bertold Brecht

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon, from “On Innovation,” Essays, 1597

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

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

People don’t change. Only their costumes do.
Gene Moore

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

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

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

Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau

-I hope that you enjoyed these famous, inspiring quotes about change. Whether you or someone you know, are changing job, ending or beginning a relationship or moving away, then I am sure,you will be able to relate to some of these quotes on change. Change is a trait of humanity and the quotes above mirror this humanity and puts it into words, in the best possible way. If you want more, then see the QUOTES ABOUT MOVING ON page, as well.

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