Change Quotes

They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
A. w. toze - plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything...
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R. D. Laing
Nelson mandela - there is nothing like returning to a place that...
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.
Quintilian
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuh
E. b. white - weather is a great bluffer. i guess the same is...
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Richard Milhous Nixon
The more things change the more they remain the same.
Alphonse Karr, Les Gu? pes
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
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
Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.
Nancy Asto
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert
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
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
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
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Author Unknown
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)
The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.
Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett
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, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian
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 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
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
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
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Aeschylus
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
Christina Baldwin
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
James A. Forude
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
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
Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.
M. Morris