Change Quotes

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Oswald mosley - there are periods in history when change is...
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.
Stanislaw Ulam
Confucius - only the wisest and stupidest of men never change....
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
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
Bertrand russell - man needs, for his happiness, not only the...
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.
George Shinn
My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world.
Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
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
Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg
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
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
Buddha
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
Thaddeus Golas
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant
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".
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
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre Gide
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Karen Kaiser Clark
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
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Max Lerne
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Peter Borden
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James
All things change, nothing perishes.
Ovid
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
Stephen Covey
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 pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
John Maxwell
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
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R. D. Laing
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
Jonathan Swift
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.
Helen Steiner Rice
All appears to change when we change.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis Watley
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
Cicero