Change Quotes
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.John Oliver Hobbes
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.Earl of Roscommon
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - Yours or his.Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
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
Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.Bob Dylan, "To Ramona".
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.Henry David Thoreau
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
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.Mark Twain
Things do not change; we change.Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)
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 meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.Aeschylus
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.Suzanne Necke
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
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.Anatole France
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.John Maxwell
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.Dean Koontz
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange 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
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
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
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
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
Let the world change you and you can change the world. Deje el mundo cambiarle y usted puede cambiar el mundo.Che Guevara
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.Leo Tolstoy
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.Stanislaw Ulam
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.James Baldwin
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.R. D. Laing
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
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.Kathleen Norris
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.Nelson Mandela
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
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
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.Karen Kaiser Clark
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
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.Benjamin Franklin
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
Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.Chinese Prove
