Change Quotes

18261 Change quotes by 8034 unique authors

Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse. — Pindar
Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits. — Deepak Chopra
I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention. — Michel de Montaigne
These days many politicians are demanding change. Just like homeless people. — George Carlin
Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity… — George Santayana
Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. — William Dean Howells
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana
During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed… — Peter Drucker
The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it will… — Malcolm X
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was… — Abraham Lincoln
... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have… — Hans Zimmer
In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished… — James E. Faust
I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I… — George W. Bush
How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we… — William James
Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes. — John Dewey
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. — Bertrand Russell
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before. — Lucretius
Words are the small change of thought. — Jules Renard
Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress. — George Santayana
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot… — John Legend
When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world. — Nhat Hanh
Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything. — Mother Teresa

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