Change Quotes
Even God cannot change the past.Agathon
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.Henry David Thoreau
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.Leo Tolstoy
Everyone hates change because change brings the unknown.Unknown
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.Nelson Mandela
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
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.Suzanne Necke
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.Barbara Charline Jordan
We did not change as we grew older we just became more clearly ourselves.Lynn Hall
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
Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely. everyone who changes his or her life because of crime. have been denied a basic civil right.George Herbert Walker Bush
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.Miriam Beard
The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3. 141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.Fortran manual for Xerox Computers
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
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.John Oliver Hobbes
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.Kurt Lewin
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.Author Unknown
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?Richard Bach, One
In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.Gary Lee Phillips
Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.Cleobulus
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.James Baldwin
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.Ronald Reagan
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.James Arthur Baldwin
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.Arnold Bennett
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.Miriam Beard
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.Benjamin Disraeli
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.Jacques Maritain
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
We must become the change we want to see.Mahatma Gandhi
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
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.Franklin P. Jones
