Change Quotes

We think of change as:
"A part of life. Change can cause us stress, it all depends on our attitude toward change. A positive attitude will relieve stress!" We hope these inspirational quotes and sayings on change inspires you to accept change with a positive attitude which will relieve stress.

"There's an old Chinese proverb that says the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. If a woman can make simple pledges to change the small things, she's well on her way to leading a fuller, healthier life." Florence Henderson

"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." Aldous Huxley

"It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable, he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated." Leo Tolstoy

"Every really new idea looks crazy at first." Alfred North Whitehead

""Never swap horses crossing a stream."American Proverb

"Often times the only change people like is when the change makes a noise in their pocket." Author Unknown

"The absurd man is he who never changes." Augeste Barthélemy

"We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped." Lyman Lloyd Bryson

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

"We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped." Lyman Lloyd Bryson

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." G. C. Lichtenberg

"Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep." William Cullen Bryant

"Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast." Tom Peters

“Repeatedly, we attempt the impossible and try to change other people - but attempting this is a waste of time!" Catherine Pulsifer

"Change your thoughts, and you change your world." Norman Vincent Peale

"Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change." Catherine Pulsifer

"The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." Marilyn Ferguson."

"Change is inevitable . . . adapting to change is unavoidable, it's how you do it that sets you together or apart." William Ngwako Maphoto

"Wisdom is unchanging! Information and ideas, technology and techniques, practices and habits, fashions and perceptions change frequently, but the wisdom of the 17th or 18th century is still wisdom in the 21st century and will still be wisdom in the 23rd century. If it changes, it wasn't wisdom. Wisdom is unchanging and timeless." contributed by: Brian D. Kennedy

“Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance." Benjamin Disraeli

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference." Reinhold Niebuhr

'The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." Colin Wilson

"The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal." Deepak Chopra

"None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives." Kathleen Norris

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

"Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities." Lee Iacocca

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." Charles F. Kettering

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." C. G. Jung

"Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people." Napoleon Bonaparte

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

"It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." Marilyn Ferguson

"When you're finished changing, you're finished." Benjamin Franklin

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." George Bernard Shaw

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

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." Alfred North Whitehead

"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea." Jim Rohn

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." Alexander Graham Bell

"The absurd man is he who never changes." Auguste Barthelemy

"You have to stop to change direction." Eric Fromm

"Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"There is nothing permanent except change." Heraclitus

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." Gail Sheehy

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude." Oprah Winfrey

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

"The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors." Anthony Robbins

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

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." Denis Waitley

"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

"For us, simplicity was changing our lifestyle. The term 'voluntary simplicity' applies well to us, as we were not forced to simplify, we voluntarily simplified our life. It meant giving up some things, but it has also meant that we gained a lot. Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from Simplicity - a changing lifestyle?

"If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed." Chinese Proverb

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." George C. Lichtenberg

"To change and to change for the better are two different things." German Proverb