Change Quotes

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - - Things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

E. B. White

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".

Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.

Judge John Kane, US District Court

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Bret Harte

If you fear change, leave it here.

Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Cicero

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Annie Lennox

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Pete

Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.

Chinese Prove

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both.

Kenneth Cole, fashion show speech

Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.

Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. Laing

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Madame Swetchine

Change is good, but dollars are better.

Anonymous

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Arnold Bennett

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

Oprah Winfrey

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.

Glenda Cloud

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost, The Black Cottage

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

Pope Gregory The Great

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent it is the one that is most adaptable to change.

Charles Robert Darwin

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Jacques Maritain

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Suzanne Necke