Quotations: Change

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
Douglas Noel Adams

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen

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.
Henry Steele Commager

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
John Kenneth Galbraith

To change and to change for the better are two different things.
GermanProverb

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.
Al Kersha

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

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

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.
M. Morris

Lord, 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 Neibuhr

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
Pope John Paul II

Just because everything is different doesn't mean that everything has changed.
Irene Peter

Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
Pablo Picasso

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Theodor Reik

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.
George Shinn

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Will Smith

I'm not opposed to change; I just can't deal with it myself.
Jay Snively

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
Gloria Steinem

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.
A. W. Tozer

Everyone hates change because change brings the unknown.
Unknown

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol

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

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang

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