Change Quotes

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?
Richard Bach, One
Frank herbert - without change, something sleeps inside us, and...
Days change so many things - - Yes, hours - - we see so differently in suns and showers.
George Klingle
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 is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.
A. W. Toze
Eugene v. debs - when great changes occur in history, when great...
Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.
Chinese Prove
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
Francis Bacon
Annie lennox - ask yourself have you been kind today make...
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
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
Lucius Gary
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
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)
Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
David Letterman
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
Anatole France
Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
Buddha
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
Thomas Love Peacock
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
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - Always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
Donald J. Adams
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Douglas Noel Adams
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
Marilyn Ferguson
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
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Karen Kaiser Clark
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken
Even God cannot change the past.
Agathon
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung
You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both.
Kenneth Cole, fashion show speech
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
E. B. White
What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.
Unknown
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan
One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.
Hilary Clinton
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
Jonathan Swift
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki