Change Quotes

The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.
From "Taxi".
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.
Glenda Cloud
Barbara hall, northern exposure, baby blues, 1994 - women have more to offer this world than just a...
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
William Drayton
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
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal
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
Saint francis of assisi - lord grant me the serenity to accept the things i...
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.
Franklin P. Jones
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
Laurence J. Pete
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
Hilary clinton - one thing we know for sure is that change is...
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
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea - Change Into something rich and strange.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Joseph Parry
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
Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.
Ovid, Metamorphoses
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
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.
Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
Francois Fenelon
We must become the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
Stephen Covey
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
David Letterman
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
Alice Walke
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Anthony Brandt
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
Tom Stoppard
Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.
Cleobulus
Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
Bertrand Russell
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
We did not change as we grew older we just became more clearly ourselves.
Lynn Hall
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
John Maxwell
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
Judge John Kane, US District Court
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
Marquis de Sade
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.
Sara Teasdale