Change Quotes

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
Madame Swetchine
R. d. laing - we live in a moment of history where change is so...
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards
The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.
Dr.
Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg
The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.
Karl Marx, from "The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach".
John f. kennedy - change is the law of life; and those who look...
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - Always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
Donald J. Adams
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
Chinese prove - unles we change direction, we are likely to wind...
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley
Our children change uswhether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
James A. Forude
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
Christina Baldwin
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.
Eric Hoffe
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
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
Laurence J. Pete
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 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
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
Francois Fenelon
The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.
M. Morris
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
Judge John Kane, US District Court
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
I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.
Clay Aiken
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.
Johann von Goethe
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
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 we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
Alvin Toffle
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
Mark Twain
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll