They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.
– Andy Warhol
Things do not change; we change.
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)
Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
– Marcel Proust
Things only change when we want to change them...
– Usman Durez
Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
– Max Frisch
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
– Ramsay Clark
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.
– Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart"
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
– Malcolm X
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
– Joel Barker
We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
– Rabbi Harold Kushner
We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
– Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
– C. G. Jung
We did not change as we grew older we just became more clearly ourselves.
– Lynn Hall
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
– Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?
– Richard Bach, One
We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. (On dismissing 12,000 striking air traffic controllers)
– Ronald Reagan
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
– Stephen Covey
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
– Nathan M. Pusey
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
– Edmund Burke
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.
– Johann von Goethe
We must change in order to survive.
– Pearl Bailey
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
– Lewis Thomas
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
– Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
