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Winston Churchill

Colette

Simone de Beauvoir

John F. Kennedy

Nelson Mandela

Karl Marx

Isaac Newton

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.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

Henry David Thoreau

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Quoted by Beauvoir as the watchword of the new feminism

Simone de Beauvoir

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects; to them it is a matter of indifference if these objects are replaced by others, provided that the relations do not change. Matter does not engage their attention, they are interested in form alone.

Henri Poincaré

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering; the capacity for self-indulgence changes hands.

Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that could change.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer