Change Quotes

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

David Letterman

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Carl Gustav Jung

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Hervey Allen

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

G. C. Lichtenberg

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Thomas Love Peacock

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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Arthur Baldwin

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Maya Angelou

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

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

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Al Rogers

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Ingrid Bengis

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

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004

Ask yourself Have you been kind today Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Annie Lennox

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

The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Alphonse Ka

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.

Prince Philip of England

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Maya Angelou

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

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Max Lerne

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

Johann von Goethe

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

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won? t have anything to complain about.

Tori Amos