Change Quotes
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius, Analects
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.Eugene V. Debs
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.Unknown
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.Barbara Charline Jordan
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
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
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.
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
The more things change the more they remain the same.Alphonse Karr, Les Gu? pes
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.Joe Keenan
Things do not change; we change.Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)
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.
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.E. Joseph Crossman
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
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 was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.Richard Feynman
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
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely. everyone who changes his or her life because of crime. have been denied a basic civil right.George Herbert Walker Bush
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.W. Edwards Deming
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.Nathan M. Pusey
Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.Euripides
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
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.James Burgh
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
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
A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.Laurence J. Pete
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.Leo Tolstoy
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
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.Socrates
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
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
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
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol
Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.Cleobulus
All things change, nothing perishes.Ovid
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
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.George Shinn
