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. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. 25 thoughts from Will Durant

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. 29 quotes from Friedrich Schiller

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live. 10 other wisdom & wit from Robert Mapplethorpe

Ignorance is always afraid of change. 11 wisdom & wit from Jawaharlal Nehru

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first. 22 thoughts from Jimi Hendrix

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. 14 thoughts from Laurence Sterne

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. 12 other wisdom & wit from William Cowper

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941. 12 more quotes from Gene Tierney

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. 52 other views from Albert Camus

To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often. 74 more quotes from Winston Churchill

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. 5 sayings from William C. Bryant

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. 22 more views from Andre Gide

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. 11 more thoughts from Jawaharlal Nehru

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. 18 quotes from Margaret Mead

Change is inevitable. Change is constant. 75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. 8 quotes from Quentin Crisp

I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change. 5 quotes from Gianni Versace

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. 19 more quotes from Woodrow Wilson

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable. 75 other quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. 12 more sayings from J. Paul Getty

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day. 3 more thoughts from Frank B. Kellogg

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him. 10 wisdom & wit from Marlene Dietrich

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. 18 views from Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. 18 wisdom & wit from Margaret Mead

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. 12 thoughts from Frank Zappa

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future. 23 more quotes from Walt Disney

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change. 3 more wisdom & wit from Max Muller

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. 37 thoughts from Edmund Burke

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts. 15 other quotes from Moliere

Change of weather is the discourse of fools. 45 sayings from Thomas Fuller

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. 12 other quotes from Simone de Beauvoir

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. 14 sayings from William Arthur Ward

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator. 67 quotes from Francis Bacon

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better. 17 views from Plutarch

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes. 9 wisdom & wit from Ethel Merman

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? 29 thoughts from W. Somerset Maugham

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. 17 views from Friedrich Durrenmatt

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? 36 thoughts from Lord Byron

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. 17 more quotes from Friedrich Durrenmatt

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. 4 wisdom & wit from Carl Rogers

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. 13 more views from Dante Alighieri

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. 4 more sayings from Carl Rogers

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. 16 sayings from Alan Watts

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails. 14 other quotes from William Arthur Ward

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. 67 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none. 19 quotes from Elvis Presley

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. 40 sayings from William James

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. 37 more quotes from Edmund Burke

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. 17 other wisdom & wit from Plutarch

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it. 17 sayings from Friedrich Durrenmatt

All things must change to something new, to something strange. 26 other wisdom & wit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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. 20 views from William Tecumseh Sherman

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. 9 quotes from William S. Burroughs

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. 24 other wisdom & wit from James Russell Lowell

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. 14 wisdom & wit from Bertolt Brecht

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. 29 views from Arthur Schopenhauer

Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots. 73 other thoughts from Victor Hugo

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. 9 quotes from William S. Burroughs

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. 31 more quotes from Gertrude Stein

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind. 7 quotes from Langston Hughes

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. 45 quotes from John Ruskin

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. 7 other quotes from Nikos Kazantzakis

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. 26 other thoughts from Charles Dickens

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. 19 quotes from Alfred North Whitehead

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. 24 thoughts from James Russell Lowell

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. 24 thoughts from James Russell Lowell

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. 16 thoughts from Havelock Ellis

Change is the end result of all true learning. 17 quotes from Leo Buscaglia

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. 2 more quotes from Ralph Abernathy

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. 50 quotes from Robert Frost

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. 3 quotes from Harold Wilson

I know that my race must change. 17 views from Chief Joseph

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. 7 other quotes from B. F. Skinner

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. 50 other sayings from Robert Frost

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. 18 quotes from Jean Paul

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. 4 wisdom & wit from Maxwell Maltz

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. 4 views from Maxwell Maltz

To change what you get you must change who you are. 8 quotes from Vernon Howard

You must change in order to survive. 7 views from Pearl Bailey

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. 4 more quotes from Ellen Glasgow

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. 4 other quotes from Dean Acheson

Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it. 41 thoughts from Marcus Aurelius

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. 11 other wisdom & wit from Nicolas Chamfort

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. 27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire. 2 other quotes from Roy Orbison

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. 20 wisdom & wit from Herbert Spencer

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. 41 wisdom & wit from Marcus Aurelius

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it. 41 other views from Marcus Aurelius

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. 42 quotes from Josh Billings

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. 25 thoughts from Charles Baudelaire

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. 3 quotes from A. C. Benson

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. 7 other quotes from Abraham Maslow

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. 3 views from Arnold Bennett

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. 46 more thoughts from John F. Kennedy

Change your thoughts and you change your world. 11 more quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

Change yourself and your work will seem different. 11 other sayings from Norman Vincent Peale

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. 6 views from Harry Emerson Fosdick

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. 16 quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. 3 more quotes from Richard P. Feynman

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. 45 sayings from Bertrand Russell

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. 24 sayings from Joseph Addison

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. 135 other thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others. 23 thoughts from Niccolo Machiavelli

People can cry much easier than they can change. 24 sayings from James A. Baldwin

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. 22 more thoughts from Soren Kierkegaard

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. 22 quotes from Soren Kierkegaard

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. 3 quotes from Nancy Astor

The most useless are those who never change through the years. 13 thoughts from James M. Barrie

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. 7 quotes from Max Frisch

True change takes place in the imagination. 7 other sayings from Thomas Moore

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. 6 more quotes from Bernard Meltzer

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. 23 more thoughts from Niccolo Machiavelli

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. 18 other sayings from Pearl S. Buck

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. 53 wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world. 5 views from Charles Eames

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. 26 wisdom & wit from Frank Lloyd Wright

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb. 4 more quotes from Gilda Radner

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. 21 other thoughts from Mignon McLaughlin

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. 4 other views from Gilda Radner

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. 10 quotes from Emma Goldman

People change and forget to tell each other. 7 other views from Lillian Hellman

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. 14 other sayings from Thomas Hardy

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change. 20 other sayings from Christopher Lasch

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. 18 other quotes from Marcel Proust

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes. 16 other quotes from Douglas Horton

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. 45 quotes from Aldous Huxley

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great. 3 quotes from Isaac Watts

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance. 2 more wisdom & wit from Johnny Thunders

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it. 2 wisdom & wit from Medgar Evers

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream. 18 other sayings from Don Marquis

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal. 9 other views from Satchel Paige

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. 19 thoughts from E. B. White

Things do not change we change. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. 19 more sayings from Carl Jung

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. 31 other thoughts from Eric Hoffer

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. 18 more wisdom & wit from Marcel Proust

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words. 16 more views from Samuel Goldwyn

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? 18 more sayings from Andy Warhol

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. 50 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. 22 more sayings from William Feather

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. 9 sayings from Alfred Hitchcock

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. 11 more thoughts from Charles Kettering

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. 18 more quotes from Andy Warhol

Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. 27 other quotes from Kin Hubbard

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. 21 more quotes from Leo Tolstoy

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while. 90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. 3 thoughts from Victoria Woodhull

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth. 8 quotes from Charles Kuralt

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. 90 more views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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. 13 sayings from Sydney J. Harris

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act. 3 quotes from Alice Meynell

Taste may change, but inclination never. 90 more quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism. 4 views from Henry George

True life is lived when tiny changes occur. 21 wisdom & wit from Leo Tolstoy

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end. 3 quotes from Henry A. Wallace

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job. 24 other thoughts from Adlai E. Stevenson

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. 3 quotes from Katherine Mansfield

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. 9 sayings from Niels Bohr

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. 3 more quotes from Katherine Mansfield

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. 8 views from W. Edwards Deming

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. 100 other wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. 16 more quotes from Denis Diderot

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. 3 other quotes from Henri Bergson

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. 8 quotes from Frank Herbert

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. 6 wisdom & wit from Timothy Leary