Change Quotes

We cannot change outcomes, but we can change causes

~ Seth Czerepak

That's where we start making changes From the deepest and softest.It's not the world that we needed to change It is the people who inhabit the world. It's not machines that we need to change. It is the people who use those machines. Even with people we can start the change from the softer things such as the way we breathe, and the way we feel about or toward other people and other living beings. These soft parts shape Our behaviors and our choices, both on a personal and a global scale. In this respect, they are fundamental, more so than any material changes.

~ Ilchi Lee

Yet hopefully things are different now, and I'm moving on to something better rather than attempting to suck more out of the same stale situation.

~ Doug Cooper

To change the world, a country, an organization, a community, a relationship, begin with the smallest seed of change: begin with yourself. That is what this book is all about.

~ Gloria Burgess

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

~ Juan Ramón Jiménez

Change is not made without inconvenience even from worse to better.

~ Richard Hooker

If you want things to stay as they are things will have to change.

~ Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooner or later: namely novelty novelty novelty.

~ Thomas Hood

There is nothing permanent except change.

~ Heraclitus

You can't step into the same river twice.

~ Heraclitus

What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.

~ T. S. Eliot

As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

~ Noël Coward

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.

~ Anatole France

When you get there there isn't any there there.

~ Gertrude Stein

Change must be measured from a known base line.

~ Evan Shute

I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.

~ Samuel Butler

All things must change to something new to something strange.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

~ Eric Hoffer

I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day but no change at all ivry fifty years.

~ Finley Peter Dunne

'Change' is scientific 'progress' is ethical change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

~ Bertrand Russell

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

~ Ramsay Clark

Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.

~ The Talmud

The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

~ John Hersey

After you've done a thing the same way for two years look it over carefully. After five years look at it with suspicion. And after ten years throw it away and start all over.

~ Alfred Edward Perlman

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.

~ Karl Marx

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

If you have no will to change it you have no right to criticize it.

~ Anonymous

Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

~ Gail Sheehy

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves What will happen if ... ? or better still How can we make it happen?

~ Lisa Taylor

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

New things cannot come where there is no room.

~ Mario Morgan

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

~ Charles Du Bos

When patterns are broken new worlds emerge.

~ Tuli Kupferberg

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

This Mouse must give up one of his Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow.

~ Hyemeyohsts Storm

Compromise if not the spice of life is its solidity.

~ Phyllis Mcginley

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

~ Golda Meir

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

~ Samuel Butler

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

~ Jean Dubuffet