Change Quotes

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - - Things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

E. B. White

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Luigi Barzini

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Robyn Davidson

If you fear change, leave it here.

Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja

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

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Colin Wilson

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

Nikita Khrushchev

Let the world change you and you can change the world. Deje el mundo cambiarle y usted puede cambiar el mundo.

Che Guevara

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Andre Malraux

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Sydney Harris

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

Change in all things is sweet.

Aristotle

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.

Jesse Louis Jackson

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Euripides

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.

Tom Clancy

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Hervey Allen

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

Benjamin Franklin

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.

Unknown

Our children change uswhether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Alice Walke

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

A. W. Toze

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Arnold Bennett

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.

Marquis de Sade

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Bret Harte

Change everything except your loves.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.

Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

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

Max Lerne

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.

B. F. Skinne

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

Alphonse Ka