Quotes About Change

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

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~Faith Baldwin

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~W. Edwards Deming (Thank you, Michelle.)

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

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. ~Shunryu Suzuki

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.

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

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

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

Change always comes bearing gifts. ~ Price Pritchett

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

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

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, “Mutability”

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

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

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

If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies. ~ Author Unknown

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

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

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change . ~Author unknown,

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

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

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

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