Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

change

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

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

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

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

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

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

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

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

I know that my race must change.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

You must change in order to survive.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

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

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

True change takes place in the imagination.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

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

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

People change and forget to tell each other.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

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

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Things do not change we change.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

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

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

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

Taste may change, but inclination never.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.