Inspiring Change Quotes and Sayings
In recent blogs we have been examining the impact of change and how to lead and manage change in the church. Below are a variety of change quotes from well known leaders and writers I have found inspiring and challenging.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl
There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
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.
Reinhold Niebuhr
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Robert Kennedy
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
Jawaharlal Nehru
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
When you are through changing, you are through.
Bruce Barton
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Denis Waitley
Change brings opportunity.
Nido Qubein
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
William Glasser
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
There is nothing so stable as change.
Bob Dylan
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
William Arthur Ward
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Robert Anthony
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
Marcus Aurelius
Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett
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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
J. Paul Getty
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Douglas Horton
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
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
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
John Wooden
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel A. Barker
If you really want to truly understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
Pauline R. Kezer
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
Joan Wallach Scott
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Denis Waitley
Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine.
Robert C. Gallagher
If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.
Author Unknown
Unless things change, they stay the same.
Harold Hook
Change, for the kingdom of heaven is near.
Jesus
Posted on March 24, 2015
