CHANGE QUOTES V

quotations about change

Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So, what are we, helpless? Puppets? Nah. The big moments are gonna come, you can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that count. That's when you find out who you are.

WHISTLER

"Becoming: Part Two", Buffy the Vampire Slayer


You don't have to love change to be successful, but you need to be willing to accept it. Change is a catalyst for personal growth. It gets you out of a rut, it gives you a fresh start, and it affords you an opportunity to reevaluate your direction. If you resist change, you're really resisting success. Learn flexibility, or learn to like living with your failures.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Motivated to Succeed


Change in all things is sweet.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics


The same is not always the same.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

JOHN LE CARRÉ

Smiley's People


My life changes all the time.
Things were different when you were mine.
You loved me yesterday.
Now these changes have come to stay.

ROY ORBISON

"Changes"


I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

DAVID SEDARIS

Naked


You gotta run, this world is standin' still
You gotta believe, you can make it up that hill
You gotta know, you can have anything
You gotta be the best that you can be
But don't change for me.

GIN BLOSSOMS

"Don't Change for Me"


The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

MAYA ANGELOU

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

GENEEN ROTH

Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything


Every generation gets a chance to change the world
Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls
Cause the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard

U2

"I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight"


If you wish to be happy, think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and of that which you are able to change.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Brisingr


A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France


Don't go changing to try and please me
You never let me down before

BILLY JOEL

"Just the Way You Are"


The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare. Or maybe Sting. But at the moment, it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw, my inability to change. I don't think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still ... it feels safer somehow. And if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar.

EPHRAM BROWN

"My Brother's Keeper", Everwood


Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.

ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS

Fear and Conventionality


Small change, small wonders--these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. It's a workable economy.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Small Wonder


Nothing lasts. That's what makes everything ... so precious.

WILLIAM SHATNER

The Ashes of Eden


We pay for every change we make ... and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Harkonnen


Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Lathe of Heaven