Change Quotes
The cost of a thing 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
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.Lucius Gary
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.Charles Langbridge Morgan
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.Joel Barke
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.Carol Burnett
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. God will see that you do want society.Henry David Thoreau
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
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
If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.Earl of Roscommon
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
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.Quintilian
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
Things do not change; we change.Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.Harry Emerson Fosdick
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.Sara Teasdale
Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.Earl Nightingale
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)
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.Sydney Harris
We must become the change we want to see.Mahatma Gandhi
What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.Unknown
Everyone hates change because change brings the unknown.Unknown
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.James Burgh
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.E. B. White
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".
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
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.Francis Bacon
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
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
Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.Maggie Roche
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.Aldous Huxley
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.Bernard M. Baruch
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.George Bernard Shaw
