CHANGE QUOTES
quotations about change
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps.
CHARLES DARWIN
On Natural Selection
The quiet ones are the ones that change the universe. The loud ones only take the credit.
LONDO MOLLARI
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Handmaid's Tale
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
NELSON MANDELA
"A Long Walk to Freedom"
I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world.
BARACK OBAMA
speech, Jan. 8, 2008
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
BERTOLT BRECHT
"Quotation"
The more things change, the more they are the same.
ALPHONSE KARR
Les Guepes
Nothing is permanent but change.
HERACLITUS
The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus
Forward, forward let us range,
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Locksley Hall
Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
A Question
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
BARACK OBAMA
speech, Feb. 5, 2008
Nothing's gonna change my world.
THE BEATLES
"Across the Universe"
It is best not to swap horses while crossing the river.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
reply to National Union League, June 9, 1864
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
MAHATMA GANDHI
attributed, Journey Into the Light
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
ROBERT FROST
"The Black Cottage"
The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
BILL CLINTON
The Washington Post, February 16, 1993
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
ALVIN TOFFLER
Future Shock
Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.
SAUL ALINSKY
Rules for Radicals
Change or die.
CLAUDIAN
In Eutropium