Saturday 29 April 2017

Change Sayings and Quotes



A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.

Samoan (on permanence and change)





A little axe can cut down a big tree.    

Jamaican (on permanence and change)





A rolling stone gathers no moss.    

John Heywood (c. 1497-1580)





A year's care; a minute's ruin.    

Tagalog (Filipino) (on perversity)





All good things must come to an end.    

H.H. Riley (1857)





An hour may destroy what an age was building.

English (on permanence and change)





Any plan is bad that cannot be changed.    

Italian (on planning)





As the sun's shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth.

Afghan (on permanence and change)






At high tide, fish eat ants; at low tide, ants eat fish.    

Thai (on permanence and change)





Beginning is easy; continuing, hard.    

Japanese (on permanence and change)





Come what may, time and hour runs through the roughest day.    

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)





If not today

Kashmiri





Let sleeping dogs lie.    

English Proverb





Life is like the moon: now full, now dark.    

Polish (on permanence and change)





Nothing remains constant except change itself.    

unknown





Off with the old and on with the new.    

unknown





Persist as resolutely as you persist in eating.    

Maori (on permanence and change)





Pleasures are transient

ors immortal.- Greek (on heaven and hell)





The leopard does not change his spots.    

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)






The winds of heaven change suddenly; so do human fortunes.

Chinese (on permanence and change)





When the moon is full, it begins to wane.

Japanese (on permanence and change)





Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

Stephen Chbosky





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

Leo Tolstoy





We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

C. JoyBell C.





He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.    

Harold Wilson





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

Victor Frankl





Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.    

Shunryu Suzuki





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





When you are through changing, you are through.

Bruce Barton





You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation: If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish.    

Author Unknown





The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.

Jawaharlal Nehru





All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Ellen Glasgow





After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.    

Alfred Edward Perlman





Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay.    

Matthew Flickstein






We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.    

Harrison Ford





Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau





Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.    

James Belasco and Ralph Stayer





People don't resist change. They resist being changed!

Peter Senge





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





It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.

Charles Darwin





The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.    

Kakuzo Okakaura






A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.    

Chinese Proverb





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

Mahatma Gandhi





To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.    

Winston Churchill





Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything

George Bernard Shaw





People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

Author Unknown





Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale





Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Benjamin Disraeli





The only people who like change are wet babies.

Author Unknown

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