Inspirational Quotes on Change

“If we prepare ourselves for life's inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions.”

“Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects.”

“Will power does not change men. Time does not change men. Christ does.”

“The change we have been striving after is not to be produced by any more striving after. It is to be wrought upon us by the moulding of hands beyond our own. As the branch ascends, and the bud bursts, and the fruit reddens under the cooperation of influences from the outside air, so man rises to the higher stature under invisible pressures from without.”

“¿Acaso esas ganas de cambiar de situación no son en realidad una íntima e incómoda impaciencia que me perseguirá donde quiera que vaya?”

“Not more certain is it that it is something outside the thermometer that produces a change in the thermometer, than it is something outside the soul of man that produces a moral change upon him. That he must be susceptible to that change, that he must be a party to it, goes without saying; but that neither his aptitude nor his will can produce it is equally certain.”

“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”

“Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.”

“A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.”

“The work of spirituality is to recognize where we are - the particular circumstances of our lives - to recognize grace and say, "Do you suppose God wants to be with me in a way that does not involve changing my spouse or getting rid of my spouse or my kids, but in changing me, and doing something in my life that maybe I could never experience without this pain and this suffering?”

“That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension--but it ought to awaken a response of love and gratitude within our hearts that will change our lives forever!”

“People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change.”

“Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.”

“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”

“It is not well to make great changes in old age.”

“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.”

“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.”

“He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.”

“It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change.”