Change Quotes

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.

Euripides

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Robert Francis Kennedy

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

Oprah Winfrey

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Euripides

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.

Chief Seattle

Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.

Prince Philip of England

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Camille Paglia

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

Author Unknown

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commage

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

Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Orison Swett Marden

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

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

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 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

Our children change uswhether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Carl Jung

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

Gertrude Stein

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

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Ingrid Bengis

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech

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

Alphonse Ka

The more things change the more they remain the same.

Alphonse Karr, Les Gu? pes

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Suzanne Necke

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.

Lin Yutang

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

Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart".