Change Quotes and Sayings

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

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in. ca. 500 BCE.
- Heraclitus

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
- Bruce Barton

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
- Frank Herbert

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
- Maria Robinson

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

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
- Confucius

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
- Pablo Picasso

Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.
- Confucius

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

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
- Bertolt Brecht

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
- Ellen Glasgow

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
- Gail Sheehy

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

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

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas a Kempis

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- Frederick Douglass

Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein

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