Change Quotes

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatche

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Anthony Brandt

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Crossman

I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.

Clay Aiken

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Franklin Kettering

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

A. N. Whitehead

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

Pope Gregory The Great

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - Always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

Donald J. Adams

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

Anthony Trollope

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Gore Vidal

Nothing in the world lasts Save eternal change.

Honorat de Bueil, Marquis de Racan

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Thaddeus Golas

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt Disney

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

Oprah Winfrey

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

John Dryden

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

Johann von Goethe

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

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Fashion changes, style remains.

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

Gertrude Stein

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

Franklin P. Jones

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Cicero

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.

Tom Clancy

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

Joseph Parry