Quotes about change

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“one word could change the whole world”

“In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.”

“You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.”

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

“Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better…”

“Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.”

“Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.”

“People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.”

“This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary; and to change what we see, it is sometimes necessary to change what we believe.”

“We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like… Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?… I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.”

“If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress." She fixed him with a look. "Do you understand?”

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”

“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot”

“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”

“In secret pleasure — secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away”

“The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.”

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”

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

“Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.”

“Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.”

“God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”

“Politicians are like diapers: they should be changed often, and for the same reason”

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.”

“How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.”

“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”

“Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.”

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”

“I never change, except in my affections.”

“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer … It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.
We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment, change has come to America.”

“You must change your life.”

“Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed
For a dream's sake.”

“Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.”

“You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.”

“I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.”

“Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth”

“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.”

“How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.”

“Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.”

“Nothing is going to change, unless someone does something soon”

“There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.”

“One of the most poisonous of all Satan’s whispers is simply, “Things will never change.” That lie kills expectation, trapping our heart forever in the present. To keep desire alive and flourishing, we must renew our vision for what lies ahead. Things will not always be like this. Jesus has promised to “make all things new.” Eye has not seen, ear has not heard all that God has in store for his lovers, which does not mean “we have no clue so don’t even try to imagine,” but rather, you cannot outdream God. Desire is kept alive by imagination, the antidote to resignation. We will need imagination, which is to say, we will need hope.”

“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.”

“If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading…”

“(Raven) "Makes me think of werewolves. Do you think a man can change into an animal?"
(Alexander) "If he's with the right girl.”

“Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.”

“We are about to change history, said Saphira.
We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is.
Ah, but what a glorious flight!
(Eragon to Saphira)”

“I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.”

“The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you…”

“The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.”

“They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.”

“I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”

“Stanley:
Delicate piece she is.
Stella:
She is. She was. You didn't know Blanche as a girl. Nobody, nobody, was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change.”

“As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.”

“Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.”

“I'll change to a dragon, then you'll be sorry.”

“Nothing he said could change what I think of you. I've had my mind made up about you for a long time… and it's all good.”

“All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.”

“Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.”

“The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.”

“The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course.”

“I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.”

“Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.”

“He leaned back a little, not taking his arm from around me, but looking into my eyes.

“You’re changing, Zoey. And I’m not sure what you’re changing into.”

“If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.”

“And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.”

“I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.”

“If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.”

“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”

“if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist”

“My soul would sing of metamorphoses.
But since, o gods, you were the source of these
bodies becoming other bodies, breathe
your breath into my book of changes: may
the song I sing be seamless as its way
weaves from the world's beginning to our day.”

“Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.”

“Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.”

“Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is alright, as long your values don't change.”

“Sometimes,” Robert said, “you choose whom you want to be with when you’re too young, and you change, and they don’t change with you.”

“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed…”

“No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.”

“She seemed to soften at that, but then she asked, "Has anything really changed?"
"I've learned I need to consult you in matters, lest you decapitate me.”

“Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.”

“Boredom is the conviction that you can't change… the shriek of unused capacities.”

“The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.”

“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready.”

“Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”

“My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a few weeks. The street of that port is about a mile and a half long. It has the slaughterhouse at one end and the graveyard at the other. The chief distraction is to walk from the slaughterhouse to the graveyard. For a change one may walk from the graveyard to the slaughterhouse.”

“The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.”

“A person can't change all at once.”

“If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.”

“In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.”

“Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change.”

“I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.”

“Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.”

“The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.”

“We cannot change the history of the past.”

“Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.”

“It wasn't the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find or touch you any more. Its the foghorn I hate. It won't let you alone. It keeps reminding you, and warning you, and calling you back.”

“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”