Change Quotes

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

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

Quintilian

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

John Maxwell

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

Peter Borden

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

Change in all things is sweet.

Aristotle

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

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

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

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

Hilary Clinton

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt Disney

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

Unknown

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985

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

Euripides

At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - Matter is eternal.

Horace Binney

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

In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.

Gary Lee Phillips

Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05 - 09 - 04

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commage

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

Gore Vidal

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.

E. B. White

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

Hazel Henderson

Our children change uswhether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatche

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

H. L. Hunt