Change Quotes

Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.

Jonathan Swift

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

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leade

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

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Thaddeus Golas

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely. everyone who changes his or her life because of crime. have been denied a basic civil right.

George Herbert Walker Bush

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05 - 09 - 04

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

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. God will see that you do want society.

Henry David Thoreau

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

Eugene V. Debs

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II

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

Clarence Day

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Shunryu Suzuki

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel Barke

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

Arnold Bennett

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.

Tom Clancy

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

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

William Arthur Ward

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Franklin Kettering

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

Clive James

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

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

A. N. Whitehead

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Hervey Allen

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

Confucius Analects

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Langbridge Morgan

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

Francis Bacon

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

Alphonse Ka

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

Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.

Greenville County (S. C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

All appears to change when we change.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

John Dryden