Change Quotes
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.George Santayana
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.Margaret Thatche
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.Marilyn Ferguson
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.George Santayana
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.Hazel Henderson
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.Karl Marx, from "The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach".
The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.Dr.
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.Henry Steele Commage
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)
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.Eric Hoffe
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.Aeschylus
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
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.Al Rogers
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.Quintilian
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.Charles Langbridge Morgan
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.Euripides
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - - He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.Harrison Ford
All things must change to something new, to something strange.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.J. R. R. Tolkien
We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.Rabbi Harold Kushne
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.Henry David Thoreau
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.Marquis de Sade
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.William James
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.Mahatma Gandhi
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.Aristotle, Politics
Things do not change; we change.Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.Oprah Winfrey
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.Luigi Barzini
If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.Job 1414 Bible Hebrew
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.Dean Koontz
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
