Quotes about change

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

George Herbert

I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

Beverly Sills

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

Maya Angelou

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Barbara Sher

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Gilda Radner

If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

One changes from day to day, and after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

George Sand

Our destiny changes with our thought, we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Orison Swett Marden

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Barbara Sher

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Alfonse Karr

A fanatic is someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Winston Churchill

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

Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Anthony Storr

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anaïs Nin

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Frank Hamilton

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities. They will never come.

Janet Erskine Stuart

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Eva Young

The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Michael Curtiz

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

James A. Garfield

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

Orson Scott Card

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

Irwin Corey

You must change in order to survive.

Pearl Bailey

Don't fear change, embrace it.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas powered engines. There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Bill Gates

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

E. B. White

Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.

George Ade