Change Quotes

Weep not that the world changes – did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Keep your mind open to change at all times. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

“Who are you?” said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I – I hardly know, Sir, just at present – at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”

The world’s a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

How queer everything is today! And yesterday things went on as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I am not the same the next question is, […]

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Had Rip Van Winkle gone away and come back today… and if he went into the courts, the principal changes he would have observed would have been the wearing apparel, the increased number of judges and the air conditioning. Most of the rest would be the same as when he began his legendary exile into […]