Change Quotes and Sayings - Page 5
We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
W.H. Auden
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one’s eternal peril.
Laurens van der Post
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin
Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine.
Robert C. Gallagher
We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What can we take on trust
in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness,
pride – nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
Euripides Hecuba
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
Leo F. Buscaglia
Through all the changing scenes of life.
Nahum Tate
You’ve changed so much. I guess that’s what happens. I wish you knew how much you changed me. I wonder if I changed you, if your life isdifferent because of me. Because mine’s different. My God, you taught me so much, and now we don’t even talk to each other. I guess that’s what happens.
Anonymous
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
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 Miller
When you are through changing, you are through.
Bruce Barton
An old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses in mid-stream.
Abraham Lincoln
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
When we have to change our minds about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
Anonymous
The Times They Are A-changing.
Bob Dylan
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.
Anatole France
We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.
Ronald Reagan
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Swami Sivananda
It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never be the same.
Gwyneth Paltrow
At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue:
To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
John Milton
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain undecided; Nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure For what we think, will come about.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Bible: Jeremiah
Well, I find that a change of nuisances is as good as a vacation.
David Lloyd George
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Stanislaw Lec
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
George Bernard Shaw
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