Change Quotes

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Tom Stoppard

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

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

John Maxwell

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

Anthony Brandt

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

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Albert Einstein

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Quintilian

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.

From "Taxi".

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

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

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Madame Swetchine

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

Kurt Lewin

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.

Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason

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

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Nathan M. Pusey

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)

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

John Oliver Hobbes

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

Confucius Analects

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely. everyone who changes his or her life because of crime. have been denied a basic civil right.

George Herbert Walker Bush

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

David Letterman

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange 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

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

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

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffle

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

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

Lynn Hall

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Shunryu Suzuki

Let the world change you and you can change the world. Deje el mundo cambiarle y usted puede cambiar el mundo.

Che Guevara

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004

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

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

The cost of a things 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

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