Change Quotes and Sayings

You can’t step into the same river twice.
Heraclitus

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
Flora Whittemore

Even though we’ve changed and we’re all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we’ll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we’re not all still friends.
Anonymous

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Jim Rohn

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
Marlene Dietrich

Poor old Daddy - just one of those sturdy old plants left over from the Edwardian Wilderness, that can’t understand why the sun isn’t shining any more.
John Osborne

The key to success is often the ability to adapt.
Anonymous

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
Nadine Gordimer

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles quotes

That which is now a horse, even with a thought
The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct,
As water is in water.
William Shakespeare

The time’s come: there’s a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up….It’s going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work….I’m going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years’ time every man and woman will be working.
Anton Chekhov