Change Quotes

Change in all things is sweet.

Aristotle

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

Alvin Toffle

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.

Sara Teasdale

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

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

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Nothing in the world lasts Save eternal change.

Honorat de Bueil, Marquis de Racan

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

David Letterman

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.

Judge John Kane, US District Court

Our children change uswhether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

Johann von Goethe

The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.

Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)

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

Mahatma Gandhi

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leade

There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.

Joe Keenan

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

Maya Angelou

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Carl R. Rogers

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

Cleobulus

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

Francis Bacon

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

Arnold Bennett

The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.

From "Taxi".

What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.

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

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

Bertrand Russell

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

Pope Gregory The Great

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.

Glenda Cloud

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Annie Lennox

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

Joseph Parry

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

George Santayana

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

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

Confucius Analects

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

C. G. Jung

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnston

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

Helen Steiner Rice

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

Alfred North Whitehead