Change Quotes

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.

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

The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

Just as I had to go through a transition period, I guess [my friends and family] did, too.

Most people see themselves a certain way their entire lives. When they go through a massive change, such as losing weight, they have to learn to see themselves in a new way. It is one of the biggest struggles her members deal with on their journey.

People get comfortable with the way you are—they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.

When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Nothing endures but change.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Things do not change; we change.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

When you're through changing, you're through.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe love nothing so much as to change. The Universe is change.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been 'great changes.'

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.