Change Quotes
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.Cicero
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.Carol Burnett
Money is always there, but the pockets change.Gertrude Stein
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.John Dryden
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.Tryon Edwards
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.Erich Fromm
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.Al Rogers
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.Denis Watley
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI)
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.Eric Hoffe
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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
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
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.Frank Herbert
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.Richard Feynman
We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.Rabbi Harold Kushne
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
There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.Michael Gartne
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.Chief Seattle
Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.Jerry Frankhause
Even God cannot change the past.Agathon
Nothing endures but change.Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.Kurt Lewin
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.John F. Kennedy
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
Our children change uswhether they live or not.Lois McMaster Bujold
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.Helen Steiner Rice
Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
Change starts when someone sees the next step.William Drayton
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.Homer, The Odyssey
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.Mahatma Gandhi
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.Sydney Harris
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won? t have anything to complain about.Tori Amos


