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".
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.Stephen Covey
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.Alvin Toffle
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.Arnold Bennett
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.Bertrand Russell
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.Karen Kaiser Clark
You must be the change you want to see in the world.Mahatma Gandhi
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.Annie Lennox
What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.Unknown
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.Lord Acton
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.Joseph Brodsky
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.Pearl Buck
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.Akhenaton
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.Giordano Bruno
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 me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.Ingrid Bengis
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
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.Anatole France
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.Harrison Ford
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.Carl Jung
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.Confucius
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
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.Kathleen Norris
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.Charles R. Swindoll
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.Laurence Sterne
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
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.James Burgh
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.Anthony Brandt
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Henry David Thoreau
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.Francis Bacon
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.Jamie Lee Curtis
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
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
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
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
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
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.John Adams
