Change Quotes

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

William James

All appears to change when we change.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnston

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

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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

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

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let us take things as we find them let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius, Analects

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. Laing

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Doug Larson

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.

Jesse Louis Jackson

We must change in order to survive.

Pearl Bailey

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

Hilary Clinton

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Aristotle, Politics

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.

Euripides

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

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

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.

Chief Seattle

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

Gene Wolfe

We did not change as we grew older we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.

Jonathan Swift

You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both.

Kenneth Cole, fashion show speech

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

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

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

Annie Lennox

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

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

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

H. L. Hunt

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

Ovid, Metamorphoses