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Change and Transience QuotesFamous Change and Transience quotes by popular authors such as Heraclitus, Irene Peter, Marcus Aurelius, Benjamin Disraeli, Bruce Barton and others.
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[highlight-text]Change means the unknown.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
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[highlight-text]Change brings opportunity.
Nido Qubein
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[highlight-text]Change is the law of life.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]Nature's mighty law is change.
Robert Burns
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[highlight-text]Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Everything changes but change.
Israel Zangwill
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[highlight-text]Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Nothing is permanent but change.
Heraclitus
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[highlight-text]Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Aphra Behn
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[highlight-text]To remain young one must change.
Alexander Chase
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[highlight-text]Nothing in this world is permanent.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]Never swap horses crossing a stream
American Proverb
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[highlight-text]Revolutions are not made; they come.
Wendell Phillips
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[highlight-text]We change whether we like it or not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Change is the only evidence of life.
Evelyn Waugh
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[highlight-text]You must change in order to survive.
Pearl Bailey
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[highlight-text]I am not now That which I have been.
Lord Byron
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[highlight-text]There is nothing so stable as change.
Bob Dylan
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[highlight-text]Life is always at some turning point.
Irwin Edman
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[highlight-text]Everything flows nothing stays still.
Heraclitus
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[highlight-text]Everything changes but change itself.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]Continuity in everything is unpleasant.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]The absurd man is he who never changes.
Auguste Barthelemy
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[highlight-text]Impermanence is the law of the universe.
Carlene Hatcher Polite
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[highlight-text]There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
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[highlight-text]You can't step into the same river twice.
Heraclitus
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[highlight-text]Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]All things change nothing is extinguished.
Ovid
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[highlight-text]The basic fact of today is the tremendous.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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[highlight-text]Ignorance is no excuse it's the real thing.
Irene Peter
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[highlight-text]Change alone is eternal perpetual immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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[highlight-text]I've learned only that you never say never.
Marina von Neumann Whitman
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[highlight-text]It is in changing that things find purpose.
Heraclitus
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[highlight-text]When you're through changing you're through.
Bruce Barton
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[highlight-text]People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
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[highlight-text]If there is no struggle there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
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[highlight-text]All is change; all yields its place and goes.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]The old order changeth yielding place to new.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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[highlight-text]When you are through changing you are through.
Bruce Barton
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[highlight-text]Earth changes but thy soul and God stand sure.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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[highlight-text]When you get there there isn't any there there.
Gertrude Stein
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[highlight-text]Change must be measured from a known base line.
Evan Shute
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[highlight-text]On the human chessboard all moves are possible.
Miriam Schiff
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[highlight-text]Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
Shirley MacLaine
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[highlight-text]Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Eric Hoffer
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[highlight-text]All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
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[highlight-text]Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Karen Kaiser Clark
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[highlight-text]You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[highlight-text]Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Robert C. Gallagher
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[highlight-text]Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
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[highlight-text]A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
James Levine
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[highlight-text]All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
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[highlight-text]Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson
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[highlight-text]Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.
Denise McCluggage
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[highlight-text]There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
Rollo May
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[highlight-text]In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Denis Waitley
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[highlight-text]To live is to change and to be perfect is to change often.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
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[highlight-text]Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?
Bible
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[highlight-text]Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]All things must change to something new to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
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[highlight-text]Just when I think I have learned the way to live life changes.
Hugh Prather
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[highlight-text]The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change; then let it come.
James Russell Lowell
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[highlight-text]Relentless repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Denis Waitley
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[highlight-text]If you want things to stay as they are things will have to change.
Giuseppe di Lampedusa
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[highlight-text]Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.
Pindar
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[highlight-text]Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel
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[highlight-text]In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.
T. S. Eliot
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[highlight-text]There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.
Ralph L. Woods
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[highlight-text]Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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[highlight-text]Change is not made without inconvenience even from worse to better.
Richard Hooker
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[highlight-text]I don't know if you can change things but it's a drop in the ocean.
Julie Walters
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[highlight-text]Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.
Sonia Johnson
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[highlight-text]There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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[highlight-text]I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Irene Peter
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[highlight-text]Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
Keri Russell
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[highlight-text]In embracing change entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
George Gilder
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[highlight-text]Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
Mary Bateson
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[highlight-text]If you do what you've always done you'll get what you've always gotten.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Where the old tracks are lost new country is revealed with its wonders.
Rabindranath Tagore
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[highlight-text]Man would be 'otherwise.' That's the essence of the specifically human.
Antonio Machado
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[highlight-text]Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Because things are the way they are things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
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[highlight-text]The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles F. Kettering
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[highlight-text]The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Henry Havelock Ellis
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[highlight-text]If we don't change we don't grow. If we don't grow we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy
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[highlight-text]We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford
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[highlight-text]If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles one would hardly see anybody.
Agatha Christie
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[highlight-text]Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions and you change all.
Vachel Lindsay
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[highlight-text]O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.
James Russell Lowell
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[highlight-text]In all change well looked into the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.
Francis Thompson
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[highlight-text]Readjusting is a painful process but most of us need it at one time or another.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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[highlight-text]The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change.
Carl Rogers
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[highlight-text]When you jump for joy beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Stanislaw Lec
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[highlight-text]I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day but no change at all ivry fifty years.
Finley Peter Dunne
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[highlight-text]Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
Esther Dyson
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[highlight-text]The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability.
Kristin Hunter
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[highlight-text]Only in growth reform and change paradoxically enough is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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[highlight-text]If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
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[highlight-text]Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
Irene Peter
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[highlight-text]The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
Freya Stark
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[highlight-text]Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert
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[highlight-text]I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
Dodie Smith
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[highlight-text]The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
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[highlight-text]Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett
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[highlight-text]Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsay Clark
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[highlight-text]All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews
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[highlight-text]Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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[highlight-text]If you can change three lives in 10 three lives in a hundred that's got to be good hasn't it?
Ian Botham
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[highlight-text]The more things change the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.)
Alphonse Karr
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[highlight-text]He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance.
Alan Watts
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[highlight-text]The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance.
Alan Watts
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[highlight-text]Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]To exist is to change to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
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[highlight-text]We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire but gradually our desire changes.
Marcel Proust
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[highlight-text]Lord where we are wrong make us willing to change; where we are right make us easy to live with.
Peter Marshall
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[highlight-text]The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world but to change it.
Colin Wilson
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[highlight-text]As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.
Noel Coward
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[highlight-text]All things are subject to change and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.)
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
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[highlight-text]Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
George Sand
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[highlight-text]Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.
Myrtle Reed
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[highlight-text]Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
Pauline R. Kezer
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[highlight-text]Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable changeless state it were a cause indeed to weep.
William Cullen Bryant
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[highlight-text]We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.
Grace Murray Hopper
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[highlight-text]Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity not a threat.
Prince Phillip of England
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[highlight-text]Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.
Talmud
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[highlight-text]The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change of perpetual flux.
Sir James Frazer
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[highlight-text]If you're in a bad situation don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation don't worry it'll change.
John A. Simone Sr.
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[highlight-text]There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooner or later: namely novelty novelty novelty.
Thomas Hood
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[highlight-text]What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid boundless colored mutability!-Life in the making?
David Grayson
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[highlight-text]'Change' is scientific 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
Faith Baldwin
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[highlight-text]The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been 'great changes.'
Marcel Proust
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[highlight-text]Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change and change is the basic law.
Hal Borland
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[highlight-text]He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson
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[highlight-text]The things we fear most in organizations-fluctuations disturbances imbalances-are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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[highlight-text]Let a man turn to his own childhood-no further-if he will renew his sense of remoteness and of the mystery of change.
Alice Meynell
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[highlight-text]A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer
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[highlight-text]Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
Jacob Braude
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[highlight-text]Changes are not only possible and predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy
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[highlight-text]It's quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person- beguiled enchanted.
Mary Chase
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[highlight-text]The mind of the most logical thinker goes so easily from one point to another that it is not hard to mistake motion for progress.
Margaret Collier Graham
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[highlight-text]We measure success and depth by length and time but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.
Barbara Hershey
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[highlight-text]We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
R. D. Laing
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[highlight-text]We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.
Bill Gates
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[highlight-text]There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay and this is common to the entire universe.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment my life changed.
Shirley MacLaine
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[highlight-text]God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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[highlight-text]The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.
Charles Kingsley
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[highlight-text]When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.
Kirstie Alley
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[highlight-text]There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.
Odell Shepard
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[highlight-text]None of us knows what the next change is going to be what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.
Kathleen Norris
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[highlight-text]If folks can learn to be racist then they can learn to be antiracist. If being sexist ain't genetic then dad gum people can learn about gender equality.
Johnnetta Betsch Cole
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[highlight-text]One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort for change is the essence of life.
Anatole France
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[highlight-text]If there is anything that we wish to change in the child we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung
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[highlight-text]All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
Anatole France
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[highlight-text]A woman's life can really be a succession of lives each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis Simpson
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[highlight-text]For good and evil man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Joyce Cary
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[highlight-text]A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence to change.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
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[highlight-text]Wherever we are it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else and whatever we do however well we do it it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences to change.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
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[highlight-text]We can say 'Peace on Earth.' We can sing about it preach about it or pray about it but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us then it will not be.
Betty Shabazz
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[highlight-text]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.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must strictly speaking at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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[highlight-text]Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb and to seek the mountain view.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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[highlight-text]The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
Berenice Abbott
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[highlight-text]The healthy being craves an occasional wildness a jolt from normality a sharpening of the edge of appetite his own little festival of the Saturnalia a brief excursion from his way of life.
Robert Maclver
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[highlight-text]Action and reaction ebb and flow trial and error change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence fear; out of our fear clearer vision fresh hope. And out of hope progress.
Bruce Barton
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[highlight-text]No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another either by argument or emotional appeal.
Marilyn Ferguson
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[highlight-text]There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
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[highlight-text]The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness but in allowing happiness to change its form ... happiness like a child must be allowed to grow up.
Charles L. Morgan
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[highlight-text]When you have a baby you set off an explosion in your marriage and when the dust settles your marriage is different from what it was. Not better necessarily; not worse necessarily; but different.
Nora Ephron
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[highlight-text]There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stagecoach that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
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[highlight-text]We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it we have lived by it we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Carl T. Rowan
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[highlight-text]Without accepting the fact that everything changes we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately although it is true it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
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[highlight-text]I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.
Joanne Woodward
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[highlight-text]The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
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[highlight-text]Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies new contrasts new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other to their work to surrounding objects.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis