Encouraging Quotes on Change

In these ever changing times, look to these quotes for direction and guidance.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

– William Pollard

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

– R. Buckminster Fuller

 

People change and forget to tell each other.

– Lillian Hellman

 

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

– Walt Disney

 

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

– Jimmy Dean

 

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.

– Anthony Bourdain

 

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

– Walt Disney

 

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

– James Baldwin

 

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

– Lao Tzu

 

Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.

– Esther Dyson

 

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

– Marilyn Monroe

 

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

– Joel A. Barker

 

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

– Maya Angelou

 

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

– Leo Tolstoy

 

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

– Eckhart Tolle

 

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

– Barack Obama

 

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he’s not the man she married?

– Barbra Streisand

 

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

– R. Buckminster Fuller

 

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

– Viktor E. Frankl,

 

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