Change Quotes

A year ago, if I had $100 in gold in my pocket, I was a law-abiding citizen; if I perchance had a pint of whiskey I was a criminal. Today, if I have the whiskey, I am a law-biding citizen; but if I have the gold I am a criminal violating the law.

Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can’t and those in cemeteries.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

What I possess I would gladly retain, change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.