Famous Quotes about Change (275 Quotations)

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point — a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Change alone is unchanging.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions… so find out how to light their fires.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.