Change Quotes

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

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

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea - Change Into something rich and strange.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Quintilian

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

Socrates

Change in all things is sweet.

Aristotle

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Aldous Huxley

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

George Santayana

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

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

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Tryon Edwards

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely. everyone who changes his or her life because of crime. have been denied a basic civil right.

George Herbert Walker Bush

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

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Albert Einstein

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Crossman

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Will Durant

This one step - - Choosing a goal and sticking to it - - Changes everything.

Scott Reed

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

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

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

John Dryden

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

H. L. Hunt

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

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

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

Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - Matter is eternal.

Horace Binney

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

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Alphonse Ka

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Let the world change you and you can change the world. Deje el mundo cambiarle y usted puede cambiar el mundo.

Che Guevara

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.

Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro