Change Quotes

Osho, my way: the way of the white clouds - if people become ecstatic the whole society will...
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
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?
Richard Bach, One
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.
George Shinn
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Mahatma gandhi - we must become the change we want to see....
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
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
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
Alvin Toffle
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.
Franklin P. Jones
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. Edwards Deming
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
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Henry Steele Commage
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.
Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".
The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05 - 09 - 04
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.
Tom Clancy
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.
Jesse Louis Jackson
In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
Madame Swetchine
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Benjamin Franklin
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
Suzanne Necke
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken
Let the world change you and you can change the world. Deje el mundo cambiarle y usted puede cambiar el mundo.
Che Guevara
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
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
C. G. Jung
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Aeschylus
The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.
Karl Marx, from "The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach".
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
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality