1,097 Quotes Regarding Change


Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
Fareed Zakaria

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
Saul Alinsky

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

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

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
Charles Caleb Colton

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.
Giordano Bruno

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Habits change into character.
Ovid

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

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
Joyce Meyer

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

I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.
Olivia Thirlby

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
Herman Cain

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.
Marilyn Manson

Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
Steve Martin

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
David Herbert Lawrence

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

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R. D. Laing

I know that my race must change.
Chief Joseph