Change Quotes
Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.Orison Swett Marden
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.Jonathan Swift
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.Henry Steele Commage
The cost of a thing 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
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.Al Rogers
The more things change, the more they remain... insane.Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05 - 09 - 04
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.Barbara Charline Jordan
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.Joseph Brodsky
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
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.Euripides
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.Oprah Winfrey
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.Ingrid Bengis
Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.Maggie Roche
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
The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3. 141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.Fortran manual for Xerox Computers
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.Pope Gregory The Great
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.Charles Franklin Kettering
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.Gore Vidal
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.W. Edwards Deming
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.John Maxwell
Religions change; beer and wine remain.Hervey Allen
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
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
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
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
All things must change to something new, to something strange.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.C. G. Jung
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won? t have anything to complain about.Tori Amos
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.Gerald W. Johnston
Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.Bob Dylan, "To Ramona".
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.Arnold Bennett
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.Ronald Reagan
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.Kathleen Norris
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.Carl Jung
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
