Change Quotes
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.Johann von Goethe
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
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
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
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.Denis Watley
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
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
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.Hillary Rodham Clinton
Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.Ovid, Metamorphoses
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.Anthony Trollope
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
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
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
Nothing in the world lasts Save eternal change.Honorat de Bueil, Marquis de Racan
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
We must change in order to survive.Pearl Bailey
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
Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".
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
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
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.Francis Bacon
No great leader in history fought to prevent change.John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leade
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Reinhold Niebuh
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.Eugene V. Debs
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.Clive James
Things do not change; we change.Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)
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
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.Joseph Parry
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
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.Carl Jung
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
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.Stephen Covey
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".
You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both.Kenneth Cole, fashion show speech
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius, Analects
