1,097 Quotes Regarding Change


Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia

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

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

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Frank Zappa

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert Camus

Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Yogi Berra

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Carl Rogers

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Mason Cooley

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William James

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Plato

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Robert Anthony

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox

There is nothing so stable as change.
Bob Dylan

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.
Bob Dylan

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
William James

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatcher