Famous Quotes

"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 on Change

More quotes about Change

• "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

  Maya Angelou on Change

• "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Change

• "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

  Reinhold Niebuhr on Change

• "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 on Change

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

  Mahatma Gandhi on Change

More quotes by Anatole France

• "In art as in love, instinct is enough."

• "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

• "What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!"

• "We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best."

• "Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues."