Change Quotes

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.

Judge John Kane, US District Court

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Alice Walke

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

Soren Kierkegaard

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004

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

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

Susanne Lange

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Clarence Day

Lord 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.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Fashion changes, style remains.

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

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

Christina Baldwin

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

At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Bernard M. Baruch

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

Thaddeus Golas

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

Earl of Roscommon

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius, Analects

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

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

Euripides

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

Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.

Nancy Asto

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

Richard Clark

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Douglas Noel Adams

Change in all things is sweet.

Aristotle

It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

Stanislaw Ulam

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

Danish prove

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

Andre Gide

Change is good, but dollars are better.

Anonymous

All things change, nothing perishes.

Ovid

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Hugh Prathe

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Pete