Change Quotes

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin

Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. Alvin Toffler

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. Richard Hooker

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. Heraclitus

To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. William James

To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it – this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. Walter Scott

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything… or nothing. Lady Nancy Astor

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

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

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change. John Ruskin

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction. Bill Gates

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. Clint Eastwood

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all. Carlos Castaneda

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. Maya Angelou

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change. Socrates

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. Malcolm X

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things. Niccolo Machiavelli

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. R D Laing

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. Carol Burnett

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. Anthony D’Angelo

When you’re through changing, you’re through. Bruce Barton

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela

It is always my choice: to change what I cannot tolerate, or tolerate what I cannot – or will not – change. Melinda M Marshall

If you don’t change, reality in the end forces that change upon you. Stuart Wilde

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. Confucius

I’m a catalyst for change…You can’t be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place. Rupert Murdoch

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. Samuel Johnson

One change always leaves the way prepared for the introduction of another. Niccolo Machiavelli

Over the grave of one who had unnecessarily sought change, there is written ‘I was well, I wanted to be better, and here I am’. W L Mackenzie King

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result. Elspeth Huxley