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 | It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 36 likes |
 | When people can not change things, they change the words. — Jean Jaures, 1859-1914, French Socialist leader 30 likes |
 | What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 17 likes |
 | Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 15 likes |
 | You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 15 likes |
 | Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 14 likes |
| If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 13 likes |
 | I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 10 likes |
 | In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 10 likes |
 | Little changes are the enemies of great changes. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 10 likes |
 | To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 9 likes |
 | Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 9 likes |
 | Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 8 likes |
 | Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 8 likes |
 | No man can step twice into the same river. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 7 likes |
 | Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 6 likes |
 | The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 6 likes |
 | Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 5 likes |
 | Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 5 likes |
| The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes |
 | In a progressive country, change is constant… change is inevitable. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 5 likes |
 | If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 5 likes |
 | Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 5 likes |
 | Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 4 likes |
 | Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 4 likes |
 | In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | We cannot change anything unless we accept it. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 4 likes |
 | In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 4 likes |
 | Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 4 likes |
 | You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. — Timothy Leary, 1920-1996, American psychologist 3 likes |
 | Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 3 likes |
 | They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 3 likes |
 | Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it? — Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814, French writer 3 likes |
 | This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 3 likes |
 | If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes |
| There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 3 likes |
| Don’t hold on to someone who’s leaving, otherwise you won’t meet the one who’s coming. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 3 likes |
 | You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different. — Bill Watterson, 1958-, American cartoonist 3 likes |
 | Why change the world? Change worlds! — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 3 likes |
 | Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 3 likes |
 | Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 2 likes |
| The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 2 likes |
| We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
 | The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
| I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
 | The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | If you don’t like it, change it. It’s your world. |
 | It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before. |
 | As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. — Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Bohemian writer (“The Metamorphosis”) |
 | No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. |
 | When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. |
 | A baby makes love stronger, the days shorter, the nights longer, savings smaller, and a home happier. — Anonymous |
 | The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. |
 | We don’t want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. |
 | Love is the unique opportunity to mature, to take shape, to become a world for the love of the loved one. |
| Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change. |
| Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. |
 | A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life. |
 | The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. |
 | To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis. |
| I soon found out you can’t change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it. |
 | Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| Things are sometimes better left as they are, but you can't be sure until you change them. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | The world is rejuvenated, but as Heine so wittily remarked, it was rejuvenated by romanticism to such a degree that it became a baby again. |
 | The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands. |
 | Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. — Vespasian, 9-79 AD, Roman Emperor (when he sensed imminent death) |
 | There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times. |
 | Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
| I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. |
| Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways |
| Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. |
| Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. |
 | People who talk incessantly about “change” are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people. |
Latin Quotes
 | All change, nothing perishes. Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 40 likes |
 | Woman is ever a fickle and changeable thing. Varium et mutabile semper Femina. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 34 likes |
 | Nature does not make jumps. Natura non facit saltus. (meaning: natural things and properties change gradually) 14 likes |
| Once the necessary changes having been made. Mutatis mutandis. 10 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 3 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 17 likes |
Ancient Greek
| Everything flows, nothing stands still. Τα πάντα ρει και ουδέν μένει. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 26 likes |
 | The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Ο κόσμος αλλοίωσις, ο βίος υπόληψις. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations IV, 3 16 likes |
| No man can step twice into the same river. Ποταμώ ουκ έστιν εμβήναι δις τω αυτώ. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
 | In all things, change is sweet. Μεταβολή δε πάντων γλυκύ. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
| Is somebody afraid of change? But what can take place without change? Φοβείταί τις μεταβολήν; τι γαρ δύναται χωρίς μεταβολής γενέσθαι; — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations VII, 18 4 likes |
| All things are in the process of changing; and you yourself are in continuous mutation and in continuous wear and the whole universe too. Πάντα εν μεταβολήι· και αυτός συ εν διηνεκεί αλλοιώσει και κατά τι φθορά, και ο κόσμος δε όλος. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations IX, 19 3 likes |
 | Another life, another way of life. Άλλος βίος, άλλη δίαιτα. 3 likes |
 | In all things change is sweet. Μεταβολή πάντων γλυκύ. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Orestes 2 likes |
Proverbs
 | Variety is the spice of life. 3 likes |
 | Don't change horses in midstream. 2 likes |
 | The more it changes, the more it stays the same. Plus ça change, plus c'est pareil. 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. — from the film The Wizard of Oz (1939) 4 likes |
