Change Quotes

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

Gertrude Stein

Lord 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.

Saint Francis of Assisi

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Clarence Day

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

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Tryon Edwards

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

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.

Glenda Cloud

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Ronald Reagan

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Colin Wilson

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

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

Nothing in the world lasts Save eternal change.

Honorat de Bueil, Marquis de Racan

Change everything except your loves.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

Quintilian

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

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Alphonse Ka

Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Alice Walke

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

Annie Lennox

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

Days change so many things - - Yes, hours - - we see so differently in suns and showers.

George Klingle

All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

James Burgh

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange 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

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

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Suzanne Necke

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

Anthony Trollope

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Arnold Bennett

Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.

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