Change Quotes

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
Homer, the odyssey - the minds of the everlasting gods are not changed...
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
Henry david thoreau - however mean your life is, meet it and live it:...
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI)
Carl jung - we cannot change anything unless we accept it....
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Lord Acton
Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle
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
Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg
This one step - - Choosing a goal and sticking to it - - Changes everything.
Scott Reed
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Marilyn Ferguson
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
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
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas
Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.
Greenville County (S. C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
Anatole France
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford
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
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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.
Jamie Lee Curtis
If you fear change, leave it here.
Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja
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
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Richard Feynman
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Author Unknown
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
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
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
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Author Unknown
Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.
Maggie Roche
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost, The Black Cottage
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Arthur Baldwin
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
Oprah Winfrey
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou