Quotes on Change
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) English poet
When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve: “My dear, we live in an age of transition.”
W. R. Inge (1860-1954) Dean of St. Paul’s, London
One change leaves the way open for the introduction of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) Italian political philosopher
For good and evil, man is a free Creative Spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Joyce Cary (1888-1957) British author
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Richard Hooker (1554-1600) English theologian
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving (1783-1859) American author
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) English philosopher
“Change has come to America”.
Barack H. Obama 44th President of U.S.A.