CHANGE QUOTES V

quotations about change

Lasting change can only come from within.

AHSOKA TANO

"The Academy", Star Wars: The Clone Wars


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"


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

BILLY JOEL

"Just the Way You Are"


A man can always change things. That's what makes him different from the barnyard critters.

MA STONE

All That Money Can Buy


How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.

ELIZABETH LESSER

Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow


Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.

C. J. CHERRYH

Chanur's Legacy


Everything is the same as always.

PETER WEISS

The Tower


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"


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


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

MAYA ANGELOU

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


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


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


Change in all things is sweet.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics


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


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


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

JOHN LE CARRÉ

Smiley's People


Nature obliges everything to change about.
One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age;
Another grows in its place from a negligible start.
So time alters the whole nature of the world
And earth passes from one state to another.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura


Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

SAUL ALINSKY

Rules for Radicals


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


Things do not change; we change.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden