1. “There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.” —Washington Irving
2. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” —Woodrow Wilson
3. “Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular.” —Lisa Lutz
4. “Change is inevitable—except from a vending machine.” —Robert C Gallagher
5. “People are very open-minded about new things, as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.” —Charles F. Kettering
6. “Give me the strength to change the things I can, the grace to accept the things I cannot, and a great big bag of money.” —Unknown
7. “In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” —Warren Buffett
8. “Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.” —Kin Hubbard
9. “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” —W. Edwards Deming
10. “Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” —John Kenneth Galbraith
11. “If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.” —John A. Simone, Sr.
12. “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
13. “Changing is what people do when they have no options left.” —Holly Black
14. “There is nothing wrong with change…if it is in the right direction.” —Winston Churchill
15. “By changing nothing, nothing changes.” —Tony Robbins
16. “People don’t resist change. They resist being changed!” —Peter Senge
17. “Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.” —Philip Crosby
18. “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence—it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” —Peter Drucker
19. “All great changes are preceded by chaos.” —Deepak Chopra
20. “Things do not change; we change.” —Henry David Thoreau
21. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” —Norman Vincent Peale
22. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama
23. “When in doubt, choose change.” —Lily Leung
24. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” —Jim Rohn
25. “Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.” —Denis Waitley
26. “Our only security is our ability to change.” —John Lilly
27. “Change before you have to.” —Jack Welch
28. “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” —Niccolo Machiavelli
29. “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