Change Quotes
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.John Maxwell
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
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
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
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.Lord Acton
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.Earl of Roscommon
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".
To change and to change for the better are two different things.German prove
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Reinhold Niebuh
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
If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.Nancy Asto
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
The more things change, the more they remain... insane.Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05 - 09 - 04
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
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
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
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
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.Bertrand Russell
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.Buddha
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.Thaddeus Golas
Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.Bertrand Russell
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world.Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.King Whitney Jr.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.Charles Darwin
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.Confucius Analects
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.Kurt Lewin
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.Carl Jung
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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
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
You must be the change you want to see in the world.Mahatma Gandhi
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.Max Lerne
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.Douglas Noel Adams
