Change Quotes
Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.Chinese Prove
Religions change; beer and wine remain.Hervey Allen
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.Maya Angelou
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.Francis Bacon
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.Doug Larson
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.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Reinhold Niebuh
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.Susanne Lange
Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24 7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - Snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.Max Lerne
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea - Change Into something rich and strange.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
We must become the change we want to see.Mahatma Gandhi
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.Marilyn Ferguson
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI)
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.Socrates
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
Nothing in the world lasts Save eternal change.Honorat de Bueil, Marquis de Racan
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
Even God cannot change the past.Agathon
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.Benjamin Disraeli
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.Helen Steiner Rice
Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.Jerry Frankhause
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.Benjamin Franklin
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.Annie Lennox
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.Lucius Gary
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.Paul Hawken
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.Harrison Ford
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
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
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.Douglas Noel Adams
