Change Quotes
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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.
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.Kurt Lewin
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.Aeschylus
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.Millard Fillmore
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
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
All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.Akhenaton
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
Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.Ovid, Metamorphoses
The more things change the more they remain the same.Alphonse Karr, Les Gu? pes
No great leader in history fought to prevent change.John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leade
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
The more things change, the more they remain... insane.Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05 - 09 - 04
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half - Heard.Gene Wolfe
If you fear change, leave it here.Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.Danish prove
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.Confucius Analects
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 main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.Nancy Asto
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.John Kenneth Galbraith
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.Pearl Buck
Days change so many things - - Yes, hours - - we see so differently in suns and showers.George Klingle
Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.Lord Byron
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
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.Aristotle, Politics
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.H. L. Hunt
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.Red Skelton
He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.Benjamin Franklin
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.Carl R. Rogers
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
