Change Quotes
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Henry David Thoreau
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.Buddha
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.Robert Frost, The Black Cottage
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.Charles Franklin Kettering
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.George Santayana
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.A. W. Toze
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.Aeschylus
You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both.Kenneth Cole, fashion show speech
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.Denis Watley
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
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.Alfred North Whitehead
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.Richard Clark
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
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.Jonathan Swift
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.Millard Fillmore
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.Percy B. Shelley
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius, Analects
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.Joe Keenan
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
This one step - - Choosing a goal and sticking to it - - Changes everything.Scott Reed
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
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.Hugh Prathe
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.B. F. Skinne
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
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
Everyone hates change because change brings the unknown.Unknown
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
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
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.C. G. Jung
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
Change everything except your loves.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.Bob Dylan, "To Ramona".
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.A. N. Whitehead
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
