Change Quotes

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Bernard M. Baruch

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

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

Frank Herbert

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

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

W. Edwards Deming

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

C. G. Jung

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.

Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994

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

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

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

Tom Clancy

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)

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

Danish prove

Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.

Lord Byron

Fashion changes, style remains.

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

God 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.

Reinhold Niebuh

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

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.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.

Sharon Salzberg

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

Socrates

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

Aldous Huxley

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.

Jamie Lee Curtis

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Cicero

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

Alice Walke

Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.

Jonathan Swift

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

Maya Angelou

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

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

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

Thomas Love Peacock

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

Prince Philip of England

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

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Colin Wilson

If you fear change, leave it here.

Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja

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

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II