Change Quotes

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.
Hilary Clinton
Mahatma gandhi - you must be the change you want to see in the...
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Erich Fromm
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
Marquis de Sade
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant
Earl of roscommon - what you keep by you, you may change and mend but...
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
Cicero
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
William james - human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of...
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Clarence Day
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Peter Borden
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran
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
People change and forget to tell eachother.
Lillian Hellman
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.
Barbara Charline Jordan
Our children change us? whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.
Unknown
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
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Richard Milhous Nixon
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.
Anthony Trollope
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.
Carl R. Rogers
Things do not change we change.
Henry David Thoreau
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
Stephen Covey
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. Edwards Deming
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Author Unknown
To change and to change for the better are two different things.
German prove
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Jacques Maritain
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas