Change Quotes

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
Buddha
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
King Whitney Jr.
Robert f. kennedy, 1966 speech - few men are willing to brave the disapproval of...
Our children change us? whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.
Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
Clive James
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Bertrand russell - change is scientific, progress is ethical; change...
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.
Gerald W. Johnston
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
Edmund burke - we must all obey the great law of change. it is...
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas
He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
Benjamin Franklin
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Crossman
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
Confucius Analects
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell
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
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Peter Borden
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
Homer, The Odyssey
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
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Theodor Reik
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous Huxley
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
Lucius Gary
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 your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney
Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
Buddha
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004
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
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.
Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
Sidney Madwed
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
John Henry Cardinal Newman