Change Quotes

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

"I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good."

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

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

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

"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."

"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

"Things don't have to change the world to be important."

"What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done."

"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."

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

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

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

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

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

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

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

"Things do not change; we change."

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."

"Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority."

"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."

"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve."

"It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change."

"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not."

"So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen."

"Have you noticed that almost all the change in the world goes to women? When was the last time you had a five pence piece? Exactly. In a Christmas pudding. All the rest of it is in women's handbags."

"Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas."