How Things Have Changed

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto von Bismarck

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. - Ronald Wright

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon. - Nikki Reed

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change. - Marcel Proust

Things don't have to change the world to be important. - Steve Jobs

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time. - Morgan Freeman

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. - Gertrude Stein

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. - Max Eastman

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. - John Keats

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change. - Confucius

For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence. - Vincent van Gogh

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. - Robin Williams

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F Kennedy

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism. - Henry George

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. Success feeds on itself. - Tal Ben-Shahar

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician. - William Cullen

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else. - John Wooden

There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much. - Noam Chomsky

Moving doesn't change who you are. It only changes the view outside your window. - Rachel Hollis

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. - Warren Buffett

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. - Muhammad Ali

You can't change your situation. The only thing you can change is how you deal with it. - 500 Days of Summer

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. - Jack Dixon

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. - Clint Eastwood

If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. - Mary Engelbreit

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal. You do not change your decision to get there. - Zig Ziglar

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed. - Albert Einstein

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. - Estelle Morris

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. - Herbert Otto

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. - John F Kennedy

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history. - Rob Dyrdek

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change. - Brene Brown

Peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country with a simple oath, we affirm old traditions, and make new beginnings. - George W. Bush

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