Change Quotes

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

Washington Irving, Tales of a Tr

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

George Gurdjieff

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus

All is flux, nothing stays still

Plato

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Terry Pratchett

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Aung San Suu Kyi

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

David Herbert Lawrence

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

Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to F

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.

William Hague

Today is a new day. Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.

Steve Maraboli

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Eldridge Cleaver

It takes a son of a bitch to change a habit.

Stephen King

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Armistead Maupin

She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

Paulo Coelho

Nothing is so unpopular as positive change amongst friends.

Steve Maraboli

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.

Richard Marcinko

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

You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.

Steve Maraboli

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Ludwig Borne