Change Quotes

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

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)

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

James Baldwin

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.

Jesse Louis Jackson

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Gore Vidal

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 philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI)

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

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

Doug Larson

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)

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

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Maya Angelou

Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.

Bob Dylan, "To Ramona".

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

Annie Lennox

Nothing in the world lasts Save eternal change.

Honorat de Bueil, Marquis de Racan

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

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

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt Disney

The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3. 141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.

Fortran manual for Xerox Computers

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. On dismissing 12, 000 striking air traffic controllers.

Ronald Reagan

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

Johann von Goethe

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

Harrison Ford

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

Change in all things is sweet.

Aristotle

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

Robert Quillen

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Quintilian

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

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

We did not change as we grew older we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall