Change Quotes

Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is...

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the...

We would rather be ruined than changedWe would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the mo...

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re ...

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels a...

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large I contain multitudes).

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes a...

And how will this come to pass?' He paused and lowered his voice. ' In the same way all change comes...

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs ...

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. ...

Time was this place didn’t make sense and I could live with it. Either it’s changed, or I have.

Revolutions are not made they come.

There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in travell...

There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in traveli...

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd ...

So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as m...

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.

In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less ...

Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest ...

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern so...

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than m...

To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it ...

All of those things - rock and men and river - resisted change, resisted the coming as they did the ...

Today's Europeans and Americans who reached the age of awareness after midcentury when the communica...

HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn't he? We hear Joy's getting better....LEWIS: That's not...

Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outliv...

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they h...

I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressur...

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independe...

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe whi...

Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slande...

Zhuangzi's wife died. When Huizu went to convey his condolences, he found Zhuangzi sitting with his ...

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in th...

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have i...

If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both a...

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."

For the first time, I understand that, as much as one might desire change, one has to be willing to ...

Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had tol...

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a no...

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human...

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoi...

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they s...

Change is the only evidence of life.

The moment of change is the only poem.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles one would hardly see anybody.

The only clue to what is in people's minds is in their behavior. If a man behaves strangely, oddly, ...

I am pointing to you that under these conditions--mental strain, physical malaise--it is highly prob...

It was due to his tact, to his judgment, to his sympathetic manipulation of human beings that the at...

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our po...

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyd...

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from...

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness...

To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly remin...

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vo...

I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care f...

We do not have feelings which change us, but feelings that suggest to us the idea of change. Thus lo...

For him, too, starting over, departures, a new life had a certain luster, but he knew that only the ...

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing ...

When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, ...

Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the d...

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling al...

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...

Every change is a menace to stability.

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

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the e...

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. W...

We shall change all that...because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, ...

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru...

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, ev...

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their p...

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such ch...

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll c...

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

Let a man turn to his own childhood-no further-if he will renew his sense of remoteness and of the ...

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as peop...

If this were a courageous country,it would ask Gloria to lead itsince she is sane and funny and beau...

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. W...

He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?I blow my nose. take off they pa...