Change Quotes

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from his family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

We must change to master change.

A hand moves, and the fire’s whirling takes different shapes… all things change when we do.

Change has become a constant; managing it has become an expanding discipline. The way we embrace it defines our future.

Matters change and morals change; men remain.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I’d have liked to tell him something I’d taken almost 60 years to learn: that we owe the dead even less than we owe the living, that our only chance of happiness – a small enough chance – lay in welcoming change.

We change, whether we like it or not.