Change Quotes

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Suzanne Necke

We did not change as we grew older we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

C. G. Jung

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

R. D. Laing

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

Kathleen Norris

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

Havelock Ellis

I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.

Clay Aiken

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

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.

Dr.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

The cost of a thing 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

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Aeschylus

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.

Greenville County (S. C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

Confucius Analects

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.

Percy B. Shelley

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Clarence Day

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea - Change Into something rich and strange.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Gore Vidal

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

Everyone hates change because change brings the unknown.

Unknown

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.

Lin Yutang

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

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

Pope Gregory The Great

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

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 believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

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

Pearl Buck

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

John Dryden

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943