Change Quotes and Sayings

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicates nothing but the changeableness of the weather.
- Augustus William Hare

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
- Stanislaw Lec

Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett

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

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
- Robert F. Kennedy

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

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
- Carl T. Rowan

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
- Francis Bacon

If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it You just do it one step at a time.
- Marian Wright Edelman

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

Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.
- Stephen Sigmund

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

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

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

If we habitually focus on how to improve things that are already great, can you see how this spirit can transform ourselves, our organizations, families and communities?
- Tony Robbins

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
- Henri Bergson

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
- Charles Kettering

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