Dozen FAV Quotes on Change

•  “Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.” – Alvin Toffler
• “Everything changes but change itself.” – John F. Kennedy
• “In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.” – Anne Sophie Swetchine
• “Plus ca change, plus c’est la même chose — The more things change, the more they remain the same.” – Alphonse Karr
• “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin
• “Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.” – John Steinbeck
• “Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.” – Christina Baldwin
• “Turbulence is life force – it is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for a change.” – Ramsay Clark
• “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Gail Sheehy
• “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
• “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
• “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” – Woodrow Wilson

These twelve wonderful quotes about change are taken from an original list compiled and posted by By George in October 2002.   — AND — there are also a few humourist observations about change that deserve to be aired again.

• “Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.” – Irene Peter
• “The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change – and we all instinctively avoid it.” – E.B. White
• “If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.” – Woody Guthrie
• “Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” – Gilda Radner