Change Quotes and Sayings

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

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.
- Felix Adler

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

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin

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

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
- Pearl S. Buck

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
- Ivy Baker Priest

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

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
- Winston Churchill

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
- Kenneth Kaunda

All is flux; nothing stays still.
- Heraclitus

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Growth is the only evidence of life.
- John Henry Newman

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

Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine.
- Robert C. Gallagher

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

It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
- Joan Wallach Scott

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
- G. K. Chesterton

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