Change Quotes

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

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The quiet ones are the ones that change the universe. The loud ones only take the credit.

LONDO MOLLARI

Babylon 5: In the Beginning

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The more things change, the more they are the same.

ALPHONSE KARR

Les Guepes

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Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Handmaid's Tale

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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

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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"

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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

BERTOLT BRECHT

"Quotation"

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Forward, forward let us range,
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

Locksley Hall

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Nothing is permanent but change.

HERACLITUS

The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus

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Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

A Question

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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

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Nothing's gonna change my world.

THE BEATLES

"Across the Universe"

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It is best not to swap horses while crossing the river.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

reply to National Union League, June 9, 1864

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

MAHATMA GANDHI

attributed, Journey Into the Light

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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

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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"

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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

ALVIN TOFFLER

Future Shock

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The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.