Change Quotes
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
Money is always there, but the pockets change.Gertrude Stein
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.Al Rogers
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.Gore Vidal
Change starts when someone sees the next step.William Drayton
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.Carol Burnett
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.James Baldwin
The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.Karl Marx, from "The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach".
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.Dr.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.Denis Watley
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.B. F. Skinne
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Henry David Thoreau
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.Stephen Covey
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.Kathleen Norris
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.Lord Acton
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.Richard Clark
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.G. C. Lichtenberg
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
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.John Kenneth Galbraith
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.Author Unknown
No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.Gordon Moore, in a keynote address at the International Solid - State Circuits Conference in San Francisco in 2003
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
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.Oprah Winfrey
Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.Kahlil Gibran
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Reinhold Niebuh
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
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.Marilyn Ferguson
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.James A. Forude
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.Richard Feynman
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol
