Change Quotes

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

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Without community, there is no liberation.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Nothing endures but change.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Ducking for apples — change one letter and it's the story of my life.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

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

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

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

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

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

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."

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

We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

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

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

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

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Light tomorrow with today!

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

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

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

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

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

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

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

It is in changing that things find purpose.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

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

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

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

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

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

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

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.

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

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

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

There is nothing permanent except change.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

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

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

People change and forget to tell each other.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

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.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

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

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

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

We must become the change we want to see

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

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 emotional appeal.

Change before you have to.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family

Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

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

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

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

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

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

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

A zebra does not change its spots.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

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

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

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

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

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Christians were never meant to be normal. We've always been holy troublemakers, we've always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that's incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

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

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

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

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

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

When you are through changing, you are through.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

Change is the only constant.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Times change. God doesn't, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.

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

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy-but that could change.

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

You change the world by being yourself.

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

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

For above all, love is a sharing. Love is a power. Love is a change that takes place in our own heart. Sometimes it may change others, but always it changes us.

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

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

There is nothing so stable as change.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

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

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

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

[Change is] the only evidence of life.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

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

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

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

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Change is the healthiest way to survive.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.

Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

Change is such hard work.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it — you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live.

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

You put high heels on and you change.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Be the change you want to see.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

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

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

All things change, nothing perishes.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

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

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

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

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

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

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

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

The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Schizophrenic is the best word - I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Habits change into character.

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

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

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

I think you'd change Alabama fundamentally if in six years someone said, 'If you want the best education in America, you've got to live in Alabama.' you'd change economic development, change the image of this state, you'd offer these kids an opportunity they otherwise would never have had.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

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

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

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

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

All people are the same; only their habits differ.

Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

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

Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

"ﾂ鯖n every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference. I was moving about with my own gang, the skinheads, wearing steel-toed army boots and kicking in shop windows.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Everything changes but change.

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with Love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

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

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

You must change in order to survive.

Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

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

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

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

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

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

Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

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

I hope (the United States) will change and they will now focus entirely on helping and building a stronger, better Afghanistan.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

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

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. -Caroline Schoeder.

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

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.

Everything changes and nothing stands still.

I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

We change whether we like it or not.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

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

Still ending, and beginning still.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

Life is always at some turning point.

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

Even God cannot change the past.

Change the molecules, juices in the blood, so they do things differently.

Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.

I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

People want progress, but they don't want change.

Revolutions never go backwards.

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

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

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

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

I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.

We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.

People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

No one likes change... but babies in diapers.

One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.

I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

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.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

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

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

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

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

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

A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.

Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

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

I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.

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

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Senator Graham would have been very difficult to beat. He'd been governor for two terms. He's a U.S. Senator. He has a lot of friends; he's done a lot of favors to help a lot of people in Florida. So the fact that he's not running really does change the whole landscape in Florida.

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

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

Love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

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

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or the Balkans. A foreign war is a wonderful lollipop to stuff in the mouth of a possibly quarrelsome press

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change.

I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

I believe in evolution and I think when it comes to business and the roots of business and the fundamentals of business, I don't think that ever changes. I think the idea of change is an illusion, but in nature it's necessary to change and perhaps business is a part of nature. I'm not totally sure.

Change means the unknown.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

All is change; all yields its place and goes.

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability.

Piracy is important to talk about. It's harming the music industry. It hurts all of us. The public needs to understand every time they buy a pirated CD, they hurt the industry. The only ones who can change that are the fans and the people that buy CDs. It's everybody's responsibility to prevent it.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

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

It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.

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

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. . . . Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.

I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.

Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.

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

And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name

Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though, it's intimate and psychological, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.