Change Quotes
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.Douglas Noel Adams
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
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
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.Sidney Madwed
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.James A. Forude
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.Jacques Maritain
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.Millard Fillmore
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.Pope Gregory The Great
God 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.Reinhold Niebuh
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.Dr.
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.Nancy Asto
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
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
The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.Karl Marx, from "The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach".
Days change so many things - - Yes, hours - - we see so differently in suns and showers.George Klingle
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.Socrates
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
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.John Maxwell
All appears to change when we change.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
If you fear change, leave it here.Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.Benjamin Franklin
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.John Adams
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
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.Miriam Beard
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.Peter Borden
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
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
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.Lewis Thomas
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.Helen Steiner Rice
