Change Quotes

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.

Bob Dylan, "To Ramona".

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

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

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

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

Francois Fenelon

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

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

James Burgh

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

James A. Forude

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

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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

Che Guevara

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

Ovid, Metamorphoses

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

Pope Gregory The Great

Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Kahlil Gibran

People change and forget to tell eachother.

Lillian Hellman

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.

Euripides

All things change, nothing perishes.

Ovid

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

Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.

Jerry Frankhause

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.

Judge John Kane, US District Court

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent it is the one that is most adaptable to change.

Charles Robert Darwin

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Andre Gide

The more things change the more they remain the same.

Alphonse Karr, Les Gu? pes

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leade

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Hervey Allen

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Douglas Noel Adams

This one step - - Choosing a goal and sticking to it - - Changes everything.

Scott Reed

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

Pearl Buck

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Tryon Edwards

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.

Nancy Asto

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

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

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Saint Francis of Assisi

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

Ellen Goodman

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Stephen Covey