Change Quotes
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
Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.Alice Walke
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
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.Greenville County (S. C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24 7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - Snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.Charles R. Swindoll
Everyone hates change because change brings the unknown.Unknown
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.Maya Angelou
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.King Whitney Jr.
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
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Mark Twain
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.Carl Jung
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.Soren Kierkegaard
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.Peter Borden
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
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.Jesse Louis Jackson
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
No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.Gordon Moore, in a keynote address at the International Solid - State Circuits Conference in San Francisco in 2003
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.Lord Byron
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.Joseph Parry
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
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
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
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.Anthony Brandt
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.Bret Harte
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.Homer, The Odyssey
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.George Bernard Shaw
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
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.Marilyn Ferguson
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.David Letterman
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.Carol Burnett
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.Ingrid Bengis
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.Karen Kaiser Clark
