Change Quotes

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Our children change us? whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

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

Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.

Chinese Prove

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Doug Larson

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

Andre Gide

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

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

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

James Baldwin

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

Danish prove

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

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.

G. C. Lichtenberg

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

Cicero

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

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

Ask yourself Have you been kind today Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Annie Lennox

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

Red Skelton

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Aldous Huxley

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

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

George Santayana

All things change, nothing perishes.

Ovid

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

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

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Robyn Davidson

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.

Chief Seattle

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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

Michael Masukawa

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

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