Change

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

What we get doesn't usually change us. What we give often does.

— Elizabeth Foss

 
All things must change to something new, to something strange.

H W Longfellow

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

Christina Baldwin

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. 

William James

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

Andy Warhol

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.

James Gordon

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.

King Whitney Jr.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Peter

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Kathleen Norris

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. 

Confucius

Don't fear change, embrace it.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

Philip Crosby

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Gail Sheehy

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

G C Lichtenberg

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

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Philip Crosby

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

John Oliver Hobbes

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.

R Niebuhr

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won’t have anything to complain about.

Tori Amos

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. 

George Bernard Shaw

Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Alice Walker

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Stephen Covey

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy