Change Quotes

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

W. Edwards Deming

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Douglas Noel Adams

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - - Things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

E. B. White

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Gore Vidal

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

Carl Jung

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.

Jerry Frankhause

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

Euripides

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

Anthony Trollope

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.

Barbara Charline Jordan

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

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Lord Acton

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

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

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

Charles Franklin Kettering

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

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

To change and to change for the better are two different things.

German prove

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

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Tom Stoppard

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.

Marquis de Sade

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Clive James

Nothing in the world lasts Save eternal change.

Honorat de Bueil, Marquis de Racan

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech

Ask yourself Have you been kind today Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Annie Lennox

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

Scott Reed

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

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

Doug Larson