Change Quotes

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 live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. Laing

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

Jonathan Swift

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

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

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

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Arthur Baldwin

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

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Andre Malraux

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

Soren Kierkegaard

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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

Christina Baldwin

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 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

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

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Crossman

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

We must change in order to survive.

Pearl Bailey

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.

Lin Yutang

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

Sharon Salzberg

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

Sidney Madwed

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Euripides

Fashion changes, style remains.

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

C. G. Jung

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

Pearl Buck

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

Cicero

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

Dr.

There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.

Michael Masukawa

The cost of a things 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