Change Quotes

Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken
Cleobulus - learn to bear bravely changes of fortune....
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Nikita Khrushchev
The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.
Dr.
Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.
Jerry Frankhause
Margaret mead - never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,...
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.
Maggie Roche
Saint francis of assisi - lord grant me the serenity to accept the things i...
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
Red Skelton
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Douglas Noel Adams
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
Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.
M. Morris
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.
Carl R. Rogers
All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004
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
My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world.
Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
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
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
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.
Franklin P. Jones
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
E. B. White
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Author Unknown
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.
Barbara Charline Jordan
Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Franklin Kettering
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Crossman
Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.
Bob Dylan, "To Ramona".
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.
A. N. Whitehead
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
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.
Sara Teasdale
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