Change Quotes

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Clive James

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.

Carl R. Rogers

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

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

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?

Richard Bach, One

Things do not change we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Even God cannot change the past.

Agathon

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Quintilian

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Buddha

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Suzanne Necke

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent it is the one that is most adaptable to change.

Charles Robert Darwin

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

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

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

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius, Analects

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004

Change in all things is sweet.

Aristotle

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

Change everything except your loves.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

Laurence J. Pete

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant