Famous Change Quotes

Shrine of the mighty! can it be, That this is all remains of thee?
-- Lord Byron

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

Still ending, and beginning still.
-- William Cowper

Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
-- Ludovico Ariosto

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. -John Schaar.
-- John Schaar

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

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
-- Henry G Miller

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. -I. Krishnamurti.
-- I Krishnamurti

The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. . -John Welwood.
-- John Welwood

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.
-- George Bernard Shaw

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.
-- Laurence Joseph Mcginley

The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.
-- David Schwartz

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

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.
-- Washington Irving

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

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
-- Cicero

There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus.
-- Heraclitus

Things do not change, we do.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Things do not change; we change.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars.
-- Christoph Cellarius