Change Quotes
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.Brian Tracy
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
All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.Unknown
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.Max Frisch
You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both.Kenneth Cole, fashion show speech
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.G. C. Lichtenberg
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.Barbara Charline Jordan
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
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.Robert Francis Kennedy
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
To change and to change for the better are two different things.German prove
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.Maya Angelou
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.Quintilian
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.Sydney Harris
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.Hillary Rodham Clinton
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.Millard Fillmore
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.Francis Bacon
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.Euripides
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.Richard Feynman
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
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half - Heard.Gene Wolfe
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.R. D. Laing
Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.Earl Nightingale
Our children change us? whether they live or not.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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
The cost of a things 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
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.Andre Malraux
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.Benjamin Disraeli
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.Max Lerne
There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.Michael Masukawa
Lord 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.Saint Francis of Assisi
We did not change as we grew older we just became more clearly ourselves.Lynn Hall
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.Bertrand Russell