Change Quotes

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

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

Gore Vidal

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

Oprah Winfrey

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

Helen Steiner Rice

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Bernard M. Baruch

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

Nelson Mandela

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.

Bob Dylan, "To Ramona".

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

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

Clive James

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

Eugene V. Debs

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

Annie Lennox

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

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)