Change Quotes

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
Clive James
Henry david thoreau - the cost of a thing is the amount of what i call...
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Susan Sontag
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
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
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
Peter borden - most advances in science come when a person for...
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost, The Black Cottage
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
Confucius Analects
Unknown, sign on a restaurant tip ja - if you fear change, leave it here....
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.
Percy B. Shelley
Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
Bertrand Russell
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
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24 7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - Snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant
If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Job 1414 Bible Hebrew
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
Millard Fillmore
We must change in order to survive.
Pearl Bailey
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
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
Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.
Cleobulus
The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt
He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
Benjamin Franklin
The more things change, the more they are the same.
Alphonse Ka
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.
Quintilian
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas
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
No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.
Gordon Moore, in a keynote address at the International Solid - State Circuits Conference in San Francisco in 2003
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.
Eugene V. Debs
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte
I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.
Clay Aiken
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
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
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
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou
All appears to change when we change.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel