Change Quotes

There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.

Joe Keenan

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.

Judge John Kane, US District Court

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

Sharon Salzberg

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

Francois Fenelon

The cost of a things 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

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

Millard Fillmore

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

If you fear change, leave it here.

Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip ja

Our children change uswhether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Denis Watley

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

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Stephen Covey

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

William Drayton

Things do not change we change.

Henry David Thoreau