CHANGE QUOTES

• Things do not change we change.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
  ~ Aldous Huxley ~
• All things change, nothing perishes.
  ~ Ovid ~
• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• The past is a story you can't change, but the future is a limitless destiny you can venture. Make your own history and your story shall live to be told.
  ~ Ally Fred ~
• One's present conditions were created by one's thought, If it does not favour one, change it with the cause.
  ~ Sirlanto Sirlanto ~
• The day one realizes his errors and make changes is the day he starts living a better life.
  ~ Sirlanto Sirlanto ~
• Single man plan cannot work to change the group unless he is a supreme in commanding.
  ~ Norbu Dorji ~
• I am not at ease, my body is rejecting the healing process. I've changed and I can't even process it.
  ~ Jade Oakes ~
• Losing a chance doesn't mean the game is over,remember the minutes are still counting and a minute can change your moods... Relax and try again one more time.
  ~ Joshua Muax ~
• Things will never change if you don't change.
  ~ Naks Bwoy ~
• A little hurt now, a single drop shed. A little change in your behavior was enough to rip my heart into shreds.
  ~ Priyoshi Kundu ~
• Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange -- my youth.
  ~ Sara Teasdale ~
• We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
  ~ Bret Harte ~
• The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
  ~ Homer ~
• The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
  ~ Aldous Huxley ~
• Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• Our time is like our money; when we change a guinea the shillings escape as things of small account; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes.
  ~ Sir Walter Scott ~
• Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
  ~ Thomas Love Peacock ~
• Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• Money is always there, but the pockets change.
  ~ Gertrude Stein ~
• Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
  ~ John Dryden ~
• Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
  ~ C. S. Lewis ~
• 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 ~
• I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change-within himself, not on the outside.
  ~ Joseph Brodsky ~
• I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
  ~ Jonathan Swift ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• Change is good, but dollars are better.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• All things must change to something new, to something strange.
  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
• All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
• I know that someday, I am going to die and leave this world forever. I never had a beautiful beginning and life has always come at me with mixed feelings and experience all along. I know that I cannot change yesterday despite the knowledge I have acquired so far. I cannot go back in time to change my beginning. Nevertheless, I can do something today to influence the future and perhaps, have a happy ending.
  ~ Lil Destar ~
• Don't change yourself so that other people will like you. Be yourself so that the right people will love you.
  ~ Jelvin Gibson ~
• Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my nose.' You either need to come to peace with it and be like, alright, I hate it, but it's part of me - or change it. So I'm not against plastic surgery, I'm against plastic surgery when it doesn't really need to be done.
  ~ Lauren Conrad ~
• I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have to take 'oohs and aahs' and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to 'oohs and aahs.' Narratives that work in social networks are the exchange of stories that are told well.
  ~ Peter Guber ~
• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
  ~ Bruce Barton ~
• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
  ~ Bruce Barton ~
• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
  ~ Bruce Barton ~
• For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
  ~ Conrad Black ~
• For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
  ~ Conrad Black ~
• No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
  ~ Frank Zappa ~
• One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
  ~ Frank Zappa ~
• People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
  ~ Sharon Stone ~
• You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
  ~ John Cleese ~
• I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
  ~ John Cleese ~
• You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
  ~ John Cleese ~
• If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
  ~ Malcolm Turnbull ~
• China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
  ~ Malcolm Turnbull ~
• All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
  ~ Julie Andrews ~
• All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
  ~ Julie Andrews ~
• Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
  ~ Muhammad Yunus ~
• Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
  ~ Muhammad Yunus ~
• Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
  ~ Muhammad Yunus ~
• My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
  ~ Muhammad Yunus ~
• Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
  ~ Laurence Sterne ~
• To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.
  ~ Samuel Wilson ~
• To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.
  ~ Samuel Wilson ~
• To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.
  ~ Samuel Wilson ~
• For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.
  ~ Tom Peters ~
• The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
  ~ Tom Peters ~
• Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
  ~ Tom Peters ~
• About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
  ~ Haile Gebrselassie ~
• I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
  ~ Temple Grandin ~
• People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
  ~ Temple Grandin ~
• I'm a role model now. I didn't know I was gonna have 13-year-old fans, so I've tried to change a few things here and there. But I also know that the girls don't want me to be Miley Cyrus, either.
  ~ Nicki Minaj ~
• A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.
  ~ John Malkovich ~
• Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
  ~ Charles De Montesquieu ~
• I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
  ~ Godfrey Reggio ~
• I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
  ~ Godfrey Reggio ~
• Logic will never change emotion or perception.
  ~ Edward De Bono ~
• Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
  ~ Edward De Bono ~
• If you never change your mind, why have one?
  ~ Edward De Bono ~
• I wanted to use sports for social change.
  ~ Billie Jean King ~
• My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
  ~ Reba Mcentire ~
• My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
  ~ Reba Mcentire ~
• If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.
  ~ Jamie Oliver ~
• I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.
  ~ Johnny Vegas ~
• Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.
  ~ Eric Ries ~
• Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
  ~ Eric Ries ~
• People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
  ~ Dick Gregory ~
• If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.
  ~ George Osborne ~
• If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.
  ~ George Osborne ~
• If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
  ~ Neil Young ~
• That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.
  ~ Martha Plimpton ~
• The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.
  ~ Ariel Sharon ~