Change Quotes

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI)

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

Soren Kierkegaard

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Aldous Huxley

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Anthony Brandt

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

Euripides

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

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

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Ingrid Bengis

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

Lucius Gary

My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world.

Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

Author Unknown

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel Barke

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

Kurt Lewin

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

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

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.

M. Morris

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

To change and to change for the better are two different things.

German prove

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Thaddeus Golas

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

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 must change in order to survive.

Pearl Bailey

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

Benjamin Franklin

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

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

Johann von Goethe

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Earl of Roscommon

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Lord Byron

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both.

Kenneth Cole, fashion show speech

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Peter Medawa