Quotes about change page 18
“Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
“We can't change what we've done, but we can always change what we're going to do.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Time Untime
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
“Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
“True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.”
Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.”
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
“changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!”
Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author
Source: Liar's Game
“Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt”
Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
“My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.”
Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess
Source: The Undomestic Goddess
“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”
Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945) Novelist, short story writer
“No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Anita Shreve (1946–2018) American writer
Source: Light on Snow
“our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read”
Harvey Mackay (1932) American businessman and journalist
Christine Feehan American writer
Source: The Twilight Before Christmas
“You really can change the world if you care enough.”
Marian Wright Edelman (1939) American children's rights activist
“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
William H. Gass (1924–2017) Fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor
Source: A Temple of Texts
“Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often!”
Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse
Source: The Titan's Curse
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Kennedy's "focus on a more practical, more attainable peace, based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution of human institutions." was quoted by Barack Obama in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
1963, American University speech
Context: I am not referring to the absolute, infinite concept of peace and good will of which some fantasies and fanatics dream. I do not deny the value of hopes and dreams but we merely invite discouragement and incredulity by making that our only and immediate goal. Let us focus instead on a more practical, more attainable peace — based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human institutions — on a series of concrete actions and effective agreements which are in the interest of all concerned. There is no single, simple key to this peace — no grand or magic formula to be adopted by one or two powers. Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process — a way of solving problems.
“You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it.”
Laurence Yep book Dragon's Gate
Source: Dragon's Gate
“If you ever decide on a career change, I’d avoid motivational speaking.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Breaks
“The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change”
Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016) Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author
Source: Only the Paranoid Survive
“If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“Surrender… sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed”
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Attributed
Source: As quoted in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, p. 548
“The more you know, the more you try to change them, and that can be disastrous.”
Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero
Source: The Lost Hero
“Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence”
Ian McEwan book Atonement
Source: Atonement
“People change and forget to tell each other.”
Lillian Hellman (1905–1984) American dramatist and screenwriter
Nicholas Sparks book True Believer
Doris McClellan, Chapter 3, p. 54
Source: 2000s, True Believer (2005)
“Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.”
Gary L. Francione (1954) American legal scholar
“You can change only what people know, not what they do.”
Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer
Source: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
“Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.”
Poppy Z. Brite (1967) Novelist, short story writer, food writer
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Devil in Winter
“Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.”
Joanne Harris book The Gospel of Loki
Source: The Gospel of Loki
“As one individual changes, the system changes.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“Application of your faith will change your life”
Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host
Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty
Variant: We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
Source: The Magnetic Fields
“You can’t change the music of your soul.
—In Esquire, 1967”
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress
Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle
"I know that--"
"But you don't," Deanna said, gently cutting her off. "Or if you do, you don't want to see it that way. Your vision, as they say, has become clouded."
Deanna and Theresa Osbourne, Chapter 10, p. 196
Source: 1990s, Message in a Bottle (1998)
“Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
“You can use a spear for a walking stick, but it will not change its nature.”
Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles
Variant: He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
Source: The Song of Achilles
Nina Simone (1933–2003) American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist
Source: I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
