change - quotes

Barack (Hussein) Obama (II), 1961-

is the 44th and current President of the United States

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.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799

was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881

was a British politician

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.

( Speech, Edinburgh, 1867 )

Carl (Gustav) Jung, 1875-1961

was a Swiss psychologist

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873

was an English economist and philosopher

Things do not change; we change.

Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Murry), 1888-1923

was a New Zealand short story author

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

(Karl Paul) Reinhold Niebuhr, 1892-1971

was an US Protestant theologian

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

( in a sermon in 1943 )