Change Quotes

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
– James Farmer
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.
– Marilyn Ferguson
Researches reported that they developed a self-healing plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die.
– Tina Fey
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
– Henry Fielding
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.
– Luis Figo
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
– Ernst Fischer
There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up.
– Thomas Foran
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.
– Henry Ford
A hero is someone right who doesn't change.
– George Foreman
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
– Vicente Fox
Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
– Vicente Fox
We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
– Vicente Fox
I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?
– Matthew Fox
Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.
– Dave Freudenthal
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
– Robert Frost
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
– Robert Frost
Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.
– Heinz Fischer
Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not.
– Ruth P. Freedman
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi
We must become the change we want to see in the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
– Andy Garcia
If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.
– Jeff Garcia
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
– Bill Gates
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
– David Lloyd George
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
– J. Paul Getty
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.
– Andy Gibb
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
– Barry Gibb
We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
– Barry Gibb
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
– Andre Gide
I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.
– Roland Gift
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
– Walter Gilbert
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
– Emma Goldman
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
– Emma Goldman
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.
– Elliott Gould
I choose to live in Nashville because my whole family is there. I couldn't re-engage with the ever-changing face of the company, so I'm not begrudging any of that. As the music business continues to change, I don't know if it would ever make sense to sign with two majors. Record companies just have to reinvent the wheel as they go.
– Amy Grant
Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 percent that endorsed it on Election Day. Admittedly this is only a small change in the population, from a majority to a minority. Nor do the changers earn grace for their new opinions. They still endorsed the war on Election Day and are still responsible for it.
– Andrew Greeley
We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.
– Judd Gregg
We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.
– Christine Gregoire
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
– James Gunn
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
– Ernest Gaines
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
– Robert C. Gallagher
There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.
– Michael Gartner
Great wealth always supports the party in power, no matter how corrupt it may be. It never exerts itself for reform, for it instinctively fears change.
– Herbert George
Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends - and hardly ever our own grown children.
– Ruth Goode
A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.
– Charles Gordy
It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.
– Jennifer M. Granholm
Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.
– Susan Griffin
This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.
– Bede Griffiths
The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.
– Alain Robbe Grillet
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.
– Andy Grove
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
– Francesco Guicciardini
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
– David Ben-Gurion
I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
– Herbie Hancock
So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
– Herbie Hancock
We've been looking at machines for so long, I really wish the technology community would look at human beings first for a change, let's balance the thing out.
– Herbie Hancock
You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.
– Herbie Hancock
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
– Thomas Hardy
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.
– Franco Harris
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.
– Sydney J. Harris
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.
– Benjamin Harrison
If you really look at humor, that's what most of it is anyway. Somebody wisecracking at somebody else. Putting them down. If you look at all the sitcoms, that's all sitcoms are today. Things never change. Sardonic, sarcastic humor is always prevalent. It's hard to do something funny without being that way. It's classier if you didn't have to resort to it, I think.
– Johnny Hart
You open your box and select a new fly, then lengthen the tippet before the next try, change your position to help with the cast, and hope you have made the right decision at last, now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.
– George W. Harvey
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
– Katharine Hepburn
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
– Frank Herbert
I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.
– Jennifer Love Hewitt
When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.
– Anita Hill
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
– Eric Hoffer
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
– Billie Holiday
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
– Horace
I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.
– John Hughes
My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.
– John Hughes
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.
– Evan Hunter
I stand before you in the spirit of pure public service - not as a protector of the status quo, but as an agent of change.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.
– John Hurt
You can't jam change down the American people's throat.
– Dennis Hastert
Since I am a teacher and I lecture on social change, and on up-leveling people's lives, science fiction's a great place where you can really explore a lot of territory.
– Richard Hatch
I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.
– Teri Hatcher
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.
– Katharine Butler Hathaway
I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.
– Ronnie Hawkins
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.
– Hazel Henderson
Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed; the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day.
– Frances Hesselbein
If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
– Robert Hewison
Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.
– Burton Hillis
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.
– Arthur Hoppe
You can't please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that's what it should be about. That's why I didn't change my name or anything. It's not about the name; it's about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it's very true. And now I'm just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself.
– Vanilla Ice
I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of judges every year keeps it from becoming corrupt. I think it's very difficult if you've got judges for life; obviously relationships are cultivated between judges and authors, and publishing houses.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
I am devoted to detective novels. They make such a nice change from my work.
– Richard Leofric Jackson
Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
– Gerald Jampolsky
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
– Gerald Jampolsky
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
– Sonia Johnson
There's always someone to tell you you have to. Wrong. Don't. Rather, spend time finding out who you really are. Work on being more of that. A lot better than the futile gotta change treadmill, which never really ends.
– Shirley Jones
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
– John F. Kennedy
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
– Robert Francis Kennedy
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
– Robert Francis Kennedy
What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.
– John F. Kerry
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
– Nikita Khrushchev