Change Quotes

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

William Drayton

The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

James A. Forude

What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.

Unknown

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

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Doug Larson

Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.

Sharon Salzberg

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

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Nathan M. Pusey

In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.

Gary Lee Phillips

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

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

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Aeschylus

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

Euripides

Fashion changes, style remains.

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Alice Walke

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath

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

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Millard Fillmore

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

Prince Philip of England

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Madame Swetchine

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. Laing

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

We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Lewis Thomas

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

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

Karl Marx, from "The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach".

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel Barke

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

Hazel Henderson

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

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

Lynn Hall

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

Cleobulus

Everyone hates change because change brings the unknown.

Unknown

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford