Change Quotes

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Anthony Brandt

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Ingrid Bengis

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

We must change in order to survive.

Pearl Bailey

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.

Unknown

We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Lewis Thomas

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Quintilian

Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.

Sharon Salzberg

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

John Oliver Hobbes

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Clive James

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI)

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Alphonse Ka

I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.

Clay Aiken

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.

Nancy Asto

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Andre Gide

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

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Aristotle, Politics

Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.

Lord Byron

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

Even God cannot change the past.

Agathon

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.

Lin Yutang

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

Tryon Edwards

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

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

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

Pearl Buck

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

George Shinn

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

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Hugh Prathe

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

Red Skelton

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Richard Milhous Nixon