Change Quotes

Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.

Chinese Prove

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

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

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.

Percy B. Shelley

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)

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

Will Durant

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

Stanislaw Ulam

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Change is good, but dollars are better.

Anonymous

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Denis Watley

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

Author Unknown

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.

Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

Eugene V. Debs