Change Quotes

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

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

Robert Quillen

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

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Theodor Reik

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

Hilary Clinton

Things do not change we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)

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

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

Jonathan Swift

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - - Things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

E. B. White

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

You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both.

Kenneth Cole, fashion show speech

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Maya Angelou

This one step - - Choosing a goal and sticking to it - - Changes everything.

Scott Reed

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

John Maxwell

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Albert Einstein

All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

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

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

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

Author Unknown

There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.

Michael Masukawa

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

Lynn Hall

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

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

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Nathan M. Pusey

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.

Carl R. Rogers

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

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Buddha

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

Author Unknown

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