Change Quotes

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half - Heard.

Gene Wolfe

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Douglas Noel Adams

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent it is the one that is most adaptable to change.

Charles Robert Darwin

If you fear change, leave it here.

Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja

In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.

Gary Lee Phillips

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

Benjamin Franklin

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

Ellen Goodman

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - Always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

Donald J. Adams

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.

Euripides

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffle

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Luigi Barzini

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatche

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989

Even God cannot change the past.

Agathon

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

Author Unknown

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Laurence Sterne

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

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)

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

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

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.

Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason

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

Our children change uswhether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.

Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

Socrates

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

C. G. Jung