Quotes
Quotes about Change
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]
Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.
Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars. [Lat., Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. Astra regunt homines, sed regit astra Deus.]
Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. [Lat., Nihil est aptius delectationem lectoris quam temporum varietates fortunaeque vicissitudines.]
Change or die.
Nothing has changed in France, there is only a Frenchman the more. [Fr., Il n'y a rien de change en France; il n'y a qu'un Francais de plus.]
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
Change is inevitable in a progressive country, Change is constant.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
There is a 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.
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.
