“He changeth the times and the seasons.”
The Bible (Daniel 2:21)
SeasonsFaith
Change Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · CHANGE
Change Quotes
Read 200 of the best change quotes about embracing change, growth, new beginnings and letting go, from Heraclitus, Marcus Aurelius, Shakespeare and more.
“With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
The Bible (James 1:17)
ConstancyFaith
“As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same.”
The Bible (Psalm 102:26-27)
ConstancyFaith
“A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 3:6)
Letting GoSeasons
“Nothing of him that doth fade but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.”
William Shakespeare
TransformationBeauty
“Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, that Time will come and take my love away.”
William Shakespeare
LossTime
“No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.”
William Shakespeare
ConstancyTime
“The time is out of joint.”
William Shakespeare
ChaosChange
“O God! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.”
William Shakespeare
FateFuture
“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”
Francis Bacon
InnovationProgress
“As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.”
Francis Bacon
InnovationPatience
“It were good that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived.”
Francis Bacon
Gradual ChangeWisdom
“The world is but a perpetual movement.”
Michel de Montaigne
ChangeWorld
“I do not paint its being, I paint its passage.”
Michel de Montaigne
ChangeSelf
“None are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing.”
Samuel Johnson
HappinessAnticipation
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
Edmund Burke
ProgressStability
“Every action admits of being outdone.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
GrowthImprovement
“The only sin is limitation.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
GrowthPotential
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
Henry David Thoreau
TrendsHuman Nature
“Truth fails not; but her outward forms that bear the longest date do melt like frosty rime.”
William Wordsworth
ImpermanenceTruth
“Nought may endure but Mutability.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
ImpermanenceChange
“The flower that smiles to-day to-morrow dies.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
ImpermanenceLife
“Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful.”
Thomas Carlyle
GrowthPain
“Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.”
Thomas Jefferson
ProgressSociety
“In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.”
Benjamin Disraeli
ProgressInevitability