Change Quotes

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

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Carl Gustav Jung

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

Michael Gartne

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half - Heard.

Gene Wolfe

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

Maya Angelou

Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - Matter is eternal.

Horace Binney

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

Sidney Madwed

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.

M. Morris

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.

Marquis de Sade

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

Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.

Franklin P. Jones

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

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

Author Unknown

Change is good, but dollars are better.

Anonymous

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

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)

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

Confucius Analects

The cost of a things 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

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

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Robyn Davidson

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

Dr.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Thomas Love Peacock

Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Max Lerne

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Tom Stoppard

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

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

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

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

David Letterman

We must change in order to survive.

Pearl Bailey

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

Lord Byron