Change Quotes
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
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
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.Oprah Winfrey
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
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.Max Lerne
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.Aristotle, Politics
Ask yourself Have you been kind today Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.Annie Lennox
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.Thomas Love Peacock
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.John Oliver Hobbes
Religions change; beer and wine remain.Hervey Allen
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
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.Harry S Truman
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.Joel Barke
The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3. 141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.Fortran manual for Xerox Computers
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.
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - Always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.Donald J. Adams
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.Colin Wilson
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.Tom Stoppard
Days change so many things - - Yes, hours - - we see so differently in suns and showers.George Klingle
In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.Gary Lee Phillips
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.Mark Twain
Everything changes, nothing remains without change.Buddha
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.Hillary Rodham Clinton
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.Anatole France
If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro
A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin
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
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.William James
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
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
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.Marilyn Ferguson
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.Gerald W. Johnston
Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.Bob Dylan, "To Ramona".
Our children change us? whether they live or not.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.Lord Byron
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.J. R. R. Tolkien
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.Sara Teasdale
