Change Quotes

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

All appears to change when we change.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

Quintilian

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

Pearl Buck

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 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

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

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Laurence Sterne

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Luigi Barzini

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Andre Gide

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Colin Wilson

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

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

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leade

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

Author Unknown

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Thomas Love Peacock

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Change is good, but dollars are better.

Anonymous

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Miriam Beard

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Arnold Bennett

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

Hazel Henderson

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

Sidney Madwed

There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

Michael Gartne

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

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

Cleobulus

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.

E. B. White

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - - Things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

E. B. White

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel Barke

Change in all things is sweet.

Aristotle

Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.

Franklin P. Jones

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

George Shinn

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