Change Quotes

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

Susanne Lange

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

Gertrude Stein

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant

Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Orison Swett Marden

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech

Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.

Lord Byron

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

Annie Lennox

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

Author Unknown

Change is good, but dollars are better.

Anonymous

At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

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

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

James Burgh

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Suzanne Necke

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

Helen Steiner Rice

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

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

Lucius Gary

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.

Jamie Lee Curtis