Sayings about Change
To change and to improve are two different things. ~ German Proverbs
If a woman gets rich she changes into a man. ~ Ghanaian Proverbs
Against change of fortune set a brave heart. ~ French Proverbs
A man’s heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Popularity is the small change of glory. ~ French Proverb
Do not change horses in the middle of the river. ~ Native American Proverbs
Long absence changes friends. ~ French Proverb
The chameleon changes color to match the earth, the earth doesn’t change color to match the chameleon. ~ Senegalese Proverbs
A change of name or place may sometimes save a person. ~ Hebrew Proverb
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~ Spanish Proverbs
To change one’s mind is rather a sign of prudence than ignorance. ~ Spanish Proverb
Change yourself, change your fortunes. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
The wind changes every day, a woman every second. ~ Spanish Proverb
Go away and the conversation changes. ~ Malawian Proverbs
The winds of heaven change suddenly; so do human fortunes. ~ Chinese Proverb
Necessity changes a lion into a fox. ~ Iranian Proverbs
Nothing is more changeable than time and a woman. ~ Romanian Proverbs
The less things change, the more they remain the same. ~ Sicilian Proverb
Only fools are glad when governments change. ~ Romanian Proverbs
Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never. ~ Chinese Proverb
You must tolerate that which you cannot change. ~ Spanish Proverb
As changeable is the moon so is the opinion of the woman. ~ French Proverb
No woman can make a wise man out of a fool, but every woman can change a wise man into a fool. ~Argentine Proverbs
No matter how much the world changes, cats will never lay eggs. ~ Bambara Proverb
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. ~ Danish Proverbs
When the music changes, so does the dance. ~ West African Proverb
The wolf changes only his coat — not his character. ~ Bulgarian Proverb
Women are as changeable as the sea. ~ Greek Proverbs
If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~ Chinese Proverb
What is impossible to change is best to forget. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
It’s a bad plan that cannot be changed. ~ Italian Proverbs
If you hear that a mountain has moved, believe; but if you hear that a man has changed his character, believe it not. ~ Arabian Proverbs
A good client doesn’t change shop in three years, a good shop doesn’t change clients in three years. ~Chinese Proverb
To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~ German Proverb
A snake can change its skin but not its disposition. ~ Iranian Proverb
The cricket cries, the year changes. ~ Cameroonian Proverbs
A decision made at night may be changed in the morning. ~ Samoan Proverb
To change one’s habits has a smell of death. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
You can never consider that as your own which can be changed. ~ Latin Proverbs
Quotations about Change
Our only security is our ability to change. ~ John Lilly
Change is not progress. ~ Henry Louis Mencken
People don’t change. Only their costumes do. ~ Gene Moore
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. ~ Abraham H. Maslow
The most useless are those who never change through the years. ~ James M. Barrie
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~ Harold Wilson
Change may come to you in trinkets and I hope it adorns your life gracefully. ~ Dodinsky
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
It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
You must change in order to survive. ~ Pearl Bailey
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ~ James Baldwin
All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. ~ Julie Andrews
The absurd man is he who never changes. ~ Auguste Barthelemy
We don’t change what we are, we change what we think what we are. ~ Eric Butterworth
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. ~ Nathaniel Branden
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. ~ Jacob M. Braude
The most significant change in a person’s life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions. ~ William J. Johnston
Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining. ~ Saigyo
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
Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies. ~ Robert F. Kennedy
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. ~ Francis Bacon
Change is such hard work. ~ Billy Crystal
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.~ Christina Baldwin
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. ~ Edmund Burke
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. ~ Robert Browning
Matters change and morals change; men remain. ~ John Galsworthy
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing. ~ Augusto Roa Bastos
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~ Marcel Proust
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worst to better. ~ Samuel Johnson
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~ Confucius
People can cry much easier than they can change. ~ James Baldwin
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.
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. ~ Pauline R. Kezer
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. ~ Ellen Glasgow
The world does not have to change.… The only thing that has to change is our attitude. ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed. ~ Irene Peter
Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay. ~ Matthew Flickstein
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. ~ Marcel Proust
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
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. ~ Harrison Ford
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. ~ Lynn Hall
The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still. ~ Laurence J. Peter
You have the power to change. ~ Les Brown
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. ~ Katherine Mansfield
Things do not change; we change. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. ~ A Course In Miracles
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. ~ Joan Wallach Scott
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. ~ Denis Waitley
Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law. ~ Hal Borland
Be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place. ~ Gita Bellin
Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all. ~ Vachel Lindsay
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
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. ~ Mike Murdock
Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars. ~ Christoph Cellarius
The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. ~Jawaharlal Nehru
Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France
We must be the change we wish to see. ~ Indira Gandhi
Without change nothing changes. ~ Author Unknown
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. ~ Kurt Lewin
Growth is the only evidence of life. ~ John Henry Newman
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ~ Arthur Christopher Benson
Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death. ~ Ludwig Borne
It is strange and wonderful what changes may be wrought by a few fleeting months, on the human frame, and the human heart. ~Elizabeth J. Eames
That’s the risk you take if you change: that people you’ve been involved with won’t like the new you. But other people who do will come along. ~ Lisa Alther
We change, whether we like it or not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ~ Woodrow Wilson
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~ Viktor Frankl
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one’s eternal peril. ~ Laurens van der Post
Change or die. ~ Eldridge Cleaver
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. ~ James Baldwin
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. ~ Arnold Bennett
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. ~ Aleister Crowley
We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are. ~ Oprah Winfrey
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing. ~ Lady Nancy Astor
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Louis Bergson
All things must change to something new, to something strange. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It’s when the mind catches up with the body. ~ Raquel Welch
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~ W. Edwards Deming
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. ~ Les Brown
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. ~ Winston Churchill
People change and forget to tell each other. ~ Lillian Hellman
The world is a scene of changes, and to be constant in nature were inconstancy. ~ Abraham Cowley
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. ~ Simone De Beauvoir
