Change Quotes
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
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.Maggie Roche
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.Edmund Burke
All things change, nothing perishes.Ovid
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.Marcus Tullius Cicero
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.A. N. Whitehead
Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.M. Morris
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.Clarence Day
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
We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. On dismissing 12, 000 striking air traffic controllers.Ronald Reagan
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
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.Peter Medawa
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.Harry S Truman
Days change so many things - - Yes, hours - - we see so differently in suns and showers.George Klingle
A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.Laurence J. Pete
The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.William Arthur Ward
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.Frank Herbert
The more things change the more they remain the same.Alphonse Karr, Les Gu? pes
The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.Dr.
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
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.A. W. Toze
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
If you fear change, leave it here.Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja
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
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.Anatole France
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.Hugh Prathe
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.Lucius Gary
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.Glenda Cloud
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
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.Francois Fenelon
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won? t have anything to complain about.Tori Amos
Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.Bertrand Russell
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
We must change in order to survive.Pearl Bailey
