However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
– Henry David Thoreau
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
– William James
Human mind can grasp everything in the universe; but it cannot change everything!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing. - Quote
– Marilyn Monroe
I am leaving no sermon, no dogma, nor am I leaving as my legacy any commandment that is frozen in time or cast in stone,” he said shortly before his death. 'Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.
– Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
– Camille Paglia
I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.
– The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
– Dan Quayle
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
– G. C. Lichtenberg
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change-within himself, not on the outside.
– Joseph Brodsky
I don't really do New Year's resolutions because I don't think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you've got a problem, you need to fix it now.
– Clay Aiken
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
– E. B. White
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
– Ellen Goodman
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo your time has come -- and gone. It's time for change in America.
– William Jefferson Clinton
I hope to change things for the better, For 30 years this country has been about left versus right. Now we want to change things on the inside: national service, education, housing, a middle class that cannot finish the month.
– Yair Lapid
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.
– Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself
– Lawrence Peter Berra
I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.
– Patch Adams
I think we're seeing in working mothers a change from 'Thank God it's Friday' to 'Thank God it's Monday.' If any working mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent.
– Ann Diehl
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
– Margaret Thatcher
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
– Nikita Khrushchev
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
– Sylvia Plath
I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture.
– Sidney Madwed
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
– Richard Feynman
