Top 100 Do Not Change Quotes
#1. The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
William H Gass
#2. Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Benjamin Disraeli
#3. People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must,
Michael Mandelbaum
#5. I am called Nemesis in both Greek and Roman. I do not change, because revenge is universal.
Rick Riordan
#6. Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
L.M. Montgomery
#7. Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way ... I mean it's not the world I want to change.
Carol Emshwiller
#8. Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#9. The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change.
L. Tom Perry
#10. Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.
Ezra Taft Benson
#11. Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#12. How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do not change by being told what to do. You only change through seeing what you have to do when you realize what your being is like.
Maurice Nicoll
#13. Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day.
Geraldine Brooks
#14. We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.
Ernst Junger
#15. 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
#16. We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.
Paul Auster
#17. As time passes in Heaven, the stars do not change places, not till the day when Zig changes the complete backdrop. I tell my students this is a metaphor for life; we go along thinking nothing will be different, till the day everything suddenly changes at once.
Neil Smith
#18. People do not change, they are merely revealed.
Anne Enright
#19. It is vital that you do not change the path before you. I have told you, many times, that certain events must happen in a person's life for a reason, always for a reason. The events that will unfold before you ... they must happen, Heather. They have to.
Elizabeth Morgan
#20. The only languages which do not change are dead ones.
David Crystal
#21. Have noticed that people do not change which feature they lead with, any more than they change in character.
Tracy Chevalier
#23. A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course.
Megan McKenna
#26. She told him that she wished there were another commandment, an eleventh etched into the tablets: Do not change.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#27. God and His plan for you do not change in the crossroads.
Suzanne Eller
#28. Much of the mystery surrounding drug action can be cleared up by recognizing that drugs affect only the rate at which biologic functions proceed; they do not change the basic nature of existing processes or create new functions.
Robert Berkow
#29. If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
#30. I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.
Louis L'Amour
#31. The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.
Corey Feldman
#32. Beliefs do not change facts. Facts, if one is rational, should change beliefs.
Ricky Gervais
#33. Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.
Audre Lorde
#35. God is faithful to His promises and His intentions do not change
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Not everyone will understand you. Not everyone will appreciate you. Not everyone will embrace you. Do not change for them. Just smile at them, and move along.
Jessica Hagy
#37. If there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead.
Rosalie Maggio
#38. Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me, do not grow,
Oh time, without me, do not go.
... Oh, you cannot go, without me.
Rumi
#39. Life is a changing sequence of situations.If you do not change something, something will change you.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#40. When you forgive, you do not change the past, but you change your future".
Camilla Dorand
#41. True ideas do not change or develop, but remain as they are in the timeless 'present.
Rene Guenon
#42. One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Frank Zappa
#44. No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#45. I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#46. Learn good things from professionals but do not change like professional,it doesn't mean on what position they are..
Raghava
#47. If I seem to you to change my state and alter my condition, I do not change my mind. I try always to be Hutten, never to desert myself, but to walk with equanimity through the unequal scenes of life.
Ulrich Von Hutten
#48. For those whose faith has faded, the reasons may be real to them, but these reasons do not change the reality of what Joseph Smith restored.
James E. Faust
#49. Consistency also teaches us that some things do not change, though we may wish they would. Not everything bends to our personal preferences.
Kim John Payne
#50. Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.
Cameron Conaway
#51. The boundaries of a person's reality often do not change until that person forsakes what he or she feels confident in and then goes blindly with faith.
Robert Kiyosaki
#52. The truths of the gospel do not change. If you will follow the Christ, follow his prophet, and follow his Spirit, you will always choose the right. As a result of your wise choices, your testimony will grow stronger, and great blessings of joy, happiness, and peace will be yours.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#53. And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#54. Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change course soon, we will hand our children a situation that is out of their control.
James Hansen
#55. Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don't work well, something else will. There's always money being lost, so someone out there has to win.
Gil Blake
#56. Aikido chagnes constantly. What do not change are the principles.
Christian Tissier
#57. The preoccupations of seventeen-year-old girls
their looks, their clothes, their social life
do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy was one of the few.
Elisabeth Elliot
#58. People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not change your income. Change your heart.
John C. Maxwell
#59. People really do not change....they exist...
Will Leamon
#60. The subjects that stir the heart are not so many, after all, and they do not change.
Mary Oliver
#61. . . . if we only change reality in order to realize our dreams, and do not change these dreams themselves, sooner or later we regress back to the old reality.
Slavoj Zizek
#64. The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Frank Herbert
#65. So most priests are weak men, but like all men, given some small authority, they become tyrants. And because so many priests are fools they will not think, but simply repeat the things they learned. Things change, but priests do not change. And now things are changing fast.
Bernard Cornwell
#66. We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.
W. H. Auden
#67. I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
William Brewster
#68. There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed
rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.
Blaise Pascal
#69. If things do not change,in the future we may all speak spell check.
Tom Althouse
#70. It is foolish to play with God, he is not a man, God's laws do not change and His word is steadfast
Sunday Adelaja
#71. People do not change. It is just that they change the masks they wear and the acts they put on, with new costumes, new dialogues and new settings.That is human nature.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#72. Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Marcel Proust
#73. What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of America will cease.
Steve Southerland
#74. The conventional wisdom with David Mamet is, you do not change a word. And that agrees with me. If you want to change any of David's words, it's like wanting to change the iambic pentameter in Shakespeare - you should do something else.
John C. McGinley
#75. When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
Zig Ziglar
#76. If we do not change our way of life, and fast, we will destroy ourselves by continuing to pollute the environment that sustains us, abusing natural resources, poisoning our food supply, destroying large ecosystems, contaminating the air, and perpetuating climate change.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#77. History teaches us that humans do not change their civilisation after deliberation, or by their own willpower, but in the wake of chaos that they themselves have provoked.
Guillaume Faye
#78. Wisdom plays such a part in life that whatever may happen outside, whatever may be the trend, whatever may be the fashion, whatever may be the people are all changing into, you do not change. You change within.
Nirmala Srivastava
#79. Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.
Marianne Williamson
#80. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre.
George Orwell
#81. Places do not change so much as what we seek in them
Audre Lorde
#82. Don't you see? The things we once loved do not change, only our belief in them ... You are left with the only things that any of us have in the end. The things we keep inside of ourselves, that grow out of us, that tell us who we are.
Kevin Wilson
#83. I don't believe the greatest views in the world are great because they are vast or exotic,' she said. 'I think their power comes from the knowledge that they do not change. You look at them and you know they have been the same for a thousand years.
Helen Simonson
#84. All things change. The automobiles change every year. [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition. All things in the scientific world change. But politicians do not change. They carry old values and they don't even know it.
Jacque Fresco
#85. The Word does not change. The Dead Sea scrolls, archeology, modern science - they do not change the Bible; they confirm it.
Billy Graham
#86. A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
Wendell Berry
#87. Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.
Robert Jordan
#88. One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
May Sarton
#90. You do not change anything,
only need to make difference.
Toba Beta
#91. The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
Ezra Taft Benson
#92. Tell the children to do all their business before they come over. I do not change diapers.
Sophie Oak
#93. If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
Alvin Toffler
#94. I came to understand that we do not change gradually, peacefully, over time, but that we undergo sudden upheavals that overthrow our best-laid plans, change our character and redesign the shape of our life, all in the matter of moments.
Catherine Delors
#96. Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
Everett Dirksen
#97. If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.
Michael Franti
#98. This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior; the contours of self-interest are altered and new values rush into the vacuum.
William Powers
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