Change Quotes

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
Havelock ellis - what we call progress is the exchange of one...
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Alvin Toffle
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
Red Skelton
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
Hugh Prathe
Hilary clinton - one thing we know for sure is that change is...
There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.
Michael Masukawa
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
Anatole France
George klingle - days change so many things - - yes, hours - - we...
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox
You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both.
Kenneth Cole, fashion show speech
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
David Letterman
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
Peter Medawa
To change and to change for the better are two different things.
German prove
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne
A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
Laurence J. Pete
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.
Jesse Louis Jackson
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
Francis Bacon
Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24 7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - Snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.
Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
G. C. Lichtenberg
We must change in order to survive.
Pearl Bailey
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
Nathan M. Pusey
If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.
Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
John Maxwell
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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 have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. On dismissing 12, 000 striking air traffic controllers.
Ronald Reagan
The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.
From "Taxi".
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
Money is always there, but the pockets change.
Gertrude Stein
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Mark Twain
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel Barke
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.
Dr.
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.
Johann von Goethe