Change Quotes
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
The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)
No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.Gordon Moore, in a keynote address at the International Solid - State Circuits Conference in San Francisco in 2003
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.Eric Hoffe
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.Clive James
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas
We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.Rabbi Harold Kushne
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange 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
Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.Bob Dylan, "To Ramona".
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".
Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.Alice Walke
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.Author Unknown
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.Marilyn Ferguson
Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.Orison Swett Marden
The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.Karl Marx, from "The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach".
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.Henry David Thoreau
Everyone hates change because change brings the unknown.Unknown
Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.Anthony Brandt
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.Ronald Reagan
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.Franklin P. Jones
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.Alvin Toffle
There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.Michael Masukawa
No great leader in history fought to prevent change.John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leade
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.Pope John Paul II
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.Anatole France
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.Christina Baldwin
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.Ellen Goodman
Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.Earl Nightingale
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.Greenville County (S. C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.Charles Darwin
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
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.Aldous Huxley
