Change Quotes

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.

Glenda Cloud

Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.

Franklin P. Jones

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

Soren Kierkegaard

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - Matter is eternal.

Horace Binney

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Buddha

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.

Carl R. Rogers

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Millard Fillmore

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

Edmund Burke

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

Robert Quillen

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

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Erich Fromm

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

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

Christina Baldwin

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Franklin Kettering

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Maya Angelou

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.

Euripides

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Andre Gide

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

Alvin Toffle

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

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Theodor Reik

The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

Karl Marx, from "The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach".

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

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

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

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

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

E. Joseph Crossman

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Langbridge Morgan

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Al Rogers

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.

Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

H. L. Hunt