Quotes about change
166 quotes from 131 people
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931A Handful of Sand on the Shore, as quoted in Alterquest: the Alternative Quest for Answers (2006) by Karen Fiala, p. 127
Lord Byron1788–1824The Dream (1816), Stanza 3.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948A New Earth (2005)A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Grace Hopper1906–1992The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper (1987)
Heraclitus535–470 BCFragment 91
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Unpopular Essays (1950)
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 107, 9
Robert Browning1812–1889Paracelsus (1835), Part 5.All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Twilight of the Idols (1889)What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.
Tacitus55–120Annals (117), Book XI, 24And striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May-Day and Other Pieces (1867), May-DayThe only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
Peter Drucker1909–2005MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 44The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara1928–1967Intercontinental Press (Vol. 3 January-April 1965)