Quotes About Change

Quotes about change can be both inspirational (creating a shift in thinking), and motivational (moving one to action). But embracing change is difficult for some, and almost impossible in some ways for others.

Inviting change into your life, or better yet, proactively creating change is a skill that can be learned.

In order to learn how to better handle change, you have to start small, and practice, but it can be done.

"The moment of change is the only poem."
-Adrienne Rich

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

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

"Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process."
-Anne Wilson Schaef

"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant."
-Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."
-Arthur Schopenhauer

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
-Barack Obama

"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

"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less."
-General Eric Shinseki

"Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities."
-John C. Maxwell

"Things do not change; we change."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."
-Francis Bacon

"Our only security is our ability to change."
-John Lilly

"After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over."
-Alfred Edward Perlman

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
-Pauline R. Kezer

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
-Anais Nin

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin

The key to change... is to let go of fear.
-Rosanne Cash

Helen Keller said that security doesn't exist in nature. I think that sometimes when we fear change, it's that false belief that there is some security in not changing that produces that fear.