Quote: Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher
Quote: That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
Author: Pearl Bailey 1918-1990, American Vocalist, Movie and Stage Actress
Quote: Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: People can cry much easier than they can change.
Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: The most useless are those who never change through the years.
Author: Sir James M. Barrie 1860-1937, British Playwright
Quote: When you're through changing, you're through.
Author: Bruce Barton 1886-1967, American Author, Advertising Executive
Quote: The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos 1917-, Paraguayan Novelist
Quote: The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
Author: Jean Baudrillard French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer
Quote: Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Author: Simone De Beauvoir 1908-1986, French Novelist, Essayist
Quote: If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.
Author: Gita Bellin
Quote: Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Author: Arnold Bennett 1867-1931, British Novelist
Quote: To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly
Author: Henri L. Bergson 1859-1941, French Philosopher
Quote: There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.
Author: Bhagavad Gita c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata
Quote: There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.
Author: Helena Petrova Blavatsky 1831-1891, Russian Author, Translator, Theosophist
Quote: Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
Author: Ludwig Borne
Quote: The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Author: Nathaniel Branden American Expert on Self-esteem, Author, Psychologist
Quote: Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
Author: Jacob M. Braude American Humor Author
Quote: Change is difficult but often essential to survival.
Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: You have the power to change.
Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
Author: William C. Bryant 1794-1878, American Poet, Newspaper Editor
Quote: We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
Author: Lyman L. Bryson American Writer, Director of the Commission Freedom of the Press
Quote: Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
Author: Buddha 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism
Quote: If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Author: Warren Buffett 1930-, American Investment Entrepreneur
Quote: A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Author: Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman
Quote: We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Author: Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman
Quote: Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Author: Carol Burnett American Television Comedian
Quote: It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
Author: George Burns 1896-1996, American Comedy Actor
Quote: Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.
Author: Leo Buscaglia American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author
Quote: We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
Author: Eric Butterworth
Quote: Give wind and tide a chance to change.
Author: Richard E. Byrd 1888-1957, American Aviator, Explorer, Rear-Admiral
Quote: The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Author: Joyce Cary 1888-1957, British Author
Quote: In pain is a new time born.
Author: Adelbert Von Chamisso 1781-1838, French Poet, Biologist
Quote: To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Author: Karen Kaiser Clark
Quote: If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
Author: Eldridge Cleaver 1935-, American Black Leader, Writer
Quote: You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 1873-1954, French Author
Quote: Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Author: Henry S. Commager American Writer
Quote: Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.
Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Author: Stephen R. Covey American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People''
Quote: Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
Author: Fanny Crosby 1820-1915, American Hymn Writer
Quote: Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.
Author: Thomas Crum
Quote: Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo
Quote: Don't fear change -- embrace it.
Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo
Quote: The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Author: Dante (Alighieri) 1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet
Quote: It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Author: Charles Darwin 1809-1882, British Naturalist
Quote: It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.
Author: William B. Davis
Quote: I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Author: Jimmy Dean American Actor, Country Singer
Quote: We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.
Author: Max Depree 1924-, American Furniture Manufacturing Company Executive
Quote: Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.
Author: Jeff Dewar
Quote: Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.
Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.
Author: William O. Douglas 1898-1980, American Supreme Court Justice
Quote: Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.
Author: John W. Draper 1811-1882, American Chemist
Quote: Change starts when someone sees the next step.
Author: William Drayton
Quote: The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Author: Peter F. Drucker 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author
Quote: The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Author: Peter F. Drucker 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author
Quote: We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Author: Peter F. Drucker 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author
Quote: Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
Author: Elizabeth C. Dunn
Quote: Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
Author: A Course In Miracles Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity, Eastern Philosophy
Quote: The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.
Author: Abernathy
Quote: It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.
Author: General Adalphos
Quote: Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
Author: Saul Alinsky 1909-1972, American Radical Activist
Quote: Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.
Author: Mary S. Almanac
Quote: That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
Author: Lisa Alther 1944-, American Author
Quote: So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic
Quote: The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
Author: Maya Angelou 1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer
Quote: It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
Author: Isaac Asimov 1920-1992, Russian-born American Author
Quote: The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.
Author: Lady Nancy Astor 1897-1964, British Politician
Quote: If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.
Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.
Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA
Quote: Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: It is change; all yields its place and goes.
Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
Author: Lucius C. Falkland
Quote: Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Author: Owen Felltham 1602-1668, British Author
Quote: No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
Author: Marilyn Ferguson American Writer
Quote: Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878-1969, American Minister
Quote: When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
Author: James Dillet Freeman
Quote: Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet
Quote: Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.
Author: J. William Galbraith
Quote: Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.
Author: Robert C. Gallagher
Quote: Be the change you want to see in the world.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: We must become the change we want to see.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.
Author: Charles A. Garfield American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer
Quote: Music can't change the world.
Author: Bob Geldof 1954-, Irish Rock Musician, Philanthropist
Quote: With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
Author: David Lloyd George 1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: One person's constant is another person's variable.
Author: Susan Gerhart
Quote: Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.
Author: Joan Gilbertson
Quote: If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.
Author: Peter Gilcrest
Quote: All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
Author: Ellen Glasgow 1874-1945, American Novelist
Quote: Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
Author: George Gurdjieff 1873-1949, Russian Adept, Teacher, Writer
Quote: Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
Author: Woody Guthrie 1912-1967, American Folksinger and Songwriter
Quote: Times change, and we change with them.
Author: William Harrison 1773-1841, American Soldier, Statesman, President
Quote: Change alone is unchanging.
Author: Heraclitus BC 535-475, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
Author: Heraclitus BC 535-475, Greek Philosopher
Quote: There is nothing permanent except change.
Author: Heraclitus BC 535-475, Greek Philosopher
Quote: You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Author: Heraclitus BC 535-475, Greek Philosopher
Quote: A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.
Author: Oliver Herford 1863-1935, American Author, Illustrator
Quote: Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
Author: Herodotus BC 484-425, Greek Historian
Quote: To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Author: Richard Hooker 1554-1600, British Theologian
Quote: Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.
Author: Trinidad Hunt Author
Quote: Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.
Author: Elspeth Huxley 1907-, British Author
Quote: Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Author: I Ching 12th Century BC, Chinese Book of Changes
Quote: The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Author: I Ching 12th Century BC, Chinese Book of Changes
Quote: There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''
Author: Dean William R. Inge 1860-1954, Dean of St Paul's, London
Quote: There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
Author: Washington Irving 1783-1859, American Author
Quote: Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Author: Jesse Jackson 1941-, American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader
Quote: I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.
Author: Nelson Jackson
Quote: Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.
Author: Kabbalah BC 1200?-12700? AD, Jewish Esoteric Doctrine
Quote: The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
Author: Kabbalah BC 1200?-12700? AD, Jewish Esoteric Doctrine
Quote: The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Author: Alphonse Karr
Quote: For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.
Author: Kearney
Quote: Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
Author: Thomas p Kempis 1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer
Quote: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA
Quote: Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA
Quote: Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.
Author: Robert F. Kennedy 1925-1968, American Attorney General, Senator
Quote: The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Author: Charles F. Kettering 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor
Quote: The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
Author: Charles Kingsley 1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman
Quote: A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
Author: Paul Klee 1879-1940, Swiss Artist
Quote: The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch 1893-1970, American Writer, Critic, Naturalist
Quote: The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).
Author: Milan Kundera 1929-, Czech Author, Critic
Quote: There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.
Author: Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa 1896-1957, Sicilian Author
Quote: A rut is a grave with no ends.
Author: Alan Lampkin
Quote: Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Author: Lao-Tzu BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''
Quote: Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Author: Bruce Lee 1940-1973, Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist
Quote: All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
Author: Douglas Macarthur 1880-1964, American Army General in WW II
Quote: One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527, Italian Author, Statesman
Quote: The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
Author: Harold Macmillan 1894-1986, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister
Quote: The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
Author: Sidney Madwed American Speaker, Consultant, Author, Poet
Quote: Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Author: Norman Mailer 1923-, American Author
Quote: Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past. Author: Richard Marcinko American Business Author
Quote: What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Author: Abraham H. Maslow 1908-1970, American Psychologist
Quote: Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
Author: Giuseppe Mazzini 1805-1872, Italian Patriot, Writer
Quote: The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.
Author: Laurence J. Mcginley
Quote: The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.
Author: William Mcgovern American Businessman, Founder of MCI
Quote: It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Author: Mignon McLaughlin 1915?-, American Author, Editor
Quote: Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
Author: Sir Peter Medawar 1915-1987, British Immunologist
Quote: Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
Author: Menander of Athens BC 342-291, Greek Dramatic Poet
Quote: Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet
Quote: Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.
Author: Mohammed c.570-c.632, Meccan Spiritual Leader
Quote: When things come to the worse, they generally mend.
Author: Susanna Moodie 1803-1885, Canadian Author
Quote: People don't change. Only their costumes do.
Author: Gene Moorse
Quote: You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
Author: Mike Murdock
Quote: We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
Author: John Naisbitt American Trend Analyst, Futurist, Author
Quote: To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
Author: John Henry Newman 1801-1890, British Religious Leader, Prelate, Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr 1892-1971, American Theologian, Historian
Quote: Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Author: Herbert A. Otto
Quote: All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
Author: Jean Paul
Quote: Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Author: Octavio Paz 1914-, Mexican Poet, Essayist
Quote: Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
Author: Thomas J. Peters 1942-, American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer
Quote: I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.
Author: John Petworth
Quote: I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
Author: T. Boone Pickens American Businessman, Chairman of Mesa Petroleum
Quote: In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
Author: Plutarch 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer
Quote: Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.
Author: Irene Porter
Quote: Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
Author: Hugh Prather
Quote: Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
Author: Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist
Quote: Don't change horses while crossing a stream.
Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin
Quote: Never swap horses crossing a stream.
Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin
Quote: To change and change for the better are two different things
Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin
Quote: Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Author: Portuguese Proverb Sayings of Portuguese Origin
Quote: A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
Author: Spanish Proverb Sayings of Spanish Origin
Quote: There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
Author: Sir Walter Raleigh 1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer
Quote: The moment of change is the only poem.
Author: Adrienne Rich 1929-, American Poet
Quote: When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.
Author: Lew Richfield
Quote: Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
Author: Pat Riley 1945, American Basketball Coach
Quote: Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.
Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Author: Will Rogers 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor
Quote: If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
Quote: America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
Author: Harold Rosenberg 1906-1978, American Art Critic, Author
Quote: We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Author: Carl Rowan 1925-, American Journalist, 'The man'
Quote: One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: All movements go too far.
Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
Author: Nolan Ryan 1947-, American Baseball Player
Quote: The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
Author: Marquis De Sade 1740-1814, French Author
Quote: As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Author: Sallust BC 86-34, Roman Historian
Quote: Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
Author: Caroline Schoeder
Quote: Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.
Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader
Quote: We need to change so we can remain the same.
Author: Dorothy Serrity
Quote: Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: People do no change with the times, they change the times.
Author: P.K. Shaw
Quote: All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
Author: Gail Sheehy 1937-, American Journalist, Author
Quote: Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, British Poet
Quote: Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, British Poet
Quote: What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.
Author: Richard Shelton
Quote: Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
Author: Barbara Sher American Author of ''I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was''
Quote: A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.
Author: Rex Steven Sikes Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
Author: Marsha Sinetar American Author of ''To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love''
Quote: Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
Author: Susan Sontag 1933-, American Essayist
Quote: The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.
Author: Art Spander
Quote: A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Author: Herbert Spencer 1820-1903, British Philosopher
Quote: It is not well to make great changes in old age.
Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher
Quote: Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician
Quote: In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
Author: Anne Sophie Swetchine 1782-1857, Russian Author
Quote: A rolling stone can gather no moss.
Author: Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC, Roman Writer
Quote: Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet
Quote: In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Buddhist Monk, Teacher
Quote: Things do not change, we do.
Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
Author: Bill Tilden 1893-1953, American Tennis Player
Quote: Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Author: Alvin Toffler 1928-, American Author
Quote: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Author: Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Author: Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Author: Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
Author: Brian Tracy American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
Quote: Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.
Author: Mo Udall
Quote: Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Constant change is here to stay.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The only people who like change are wet babies.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.
Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.
Author: Lech Walesa 1943-, Polish Trade Union Leader, Politician
Quote: Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
Author: William A. Ward 1921-,
Quote: The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Author: Alan W. Watts 1915-1973, British-born American Philosopher, Author
Quote: Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
Author: H.G. Wells 1866-1946, British-born American Author
Quote: We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.
Author: Lynn White
Quote: Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Author: Walt Whitman 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Author: Tennessee Williams 1914-1983, American Dramatist
Quote: He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Author: Harold Wilson 1916-1995, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA
Quote: Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.
Author: Kirsten Zambucka
Quote: Everything changes but change.
Author: Israel Zangwill 1864-1926, British Writer
Quote: He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Author: Harold Wilson
Quote: If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Author: Mary Engelbreit
Quote: It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
Author: W. Edwards Denning
Quote: 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. Author: Anatole France
Quote: Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Author: Shunryu Suzuki
Quote: The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Author: Henry Miller
Quote: Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Author: Robert C. Gallagher
Quote: If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
Author: John A. Simone, Sr
Quote: They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Author: Confucius
Quote: The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Author: Ellen Glasgow
Quote: The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Author: Lesley P. Hartley
Quote: Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Author: Irene Peter
Quote: Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.
Author: Glen Beaman
Quote: All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Author: Ellen Glasgow
Quote: We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
Author: John Steinbeck
Quote: It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Author: Mignon McLaughlin
Quote: We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Author: Harrison Ford
Quote: If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
Author: Kurt Lewin
Quote: Things do not change; we change.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Quote: Our only security is our ability to change.
Author: John Lilly
Quote: Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Author: Bertold Brecht
Quote: He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Author: Francis Bacon
Quote: Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Quote: When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Author: Stanislaw Lec
Quote: The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Quote: Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
Author: Saul Alinsky
Quote: Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Quote: The lapse of ages changes all things--time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
Author: Lord Byron
Quote: To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
Author: Alexander Chase
Quote: Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.
Author: William Cowper
Quote: There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
Author: Euripedes
Quote: Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Author: Richard Hooker
Quote: There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
Author: Washington Irving
Quote: Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Author: Robert F. Kennedy
Quote: We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Quote: Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Quote: Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quote: If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Author: Maya Angelou
Quote: Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Author: Sir Francis Bacon
Quote: Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Author: James A. Baldwin
Quote: When you are through changing, you are through.
Author: Bruce Barton
Quote: Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Author: Arnold Bennett
Quote: Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
Author: Jacob M. Braude
Quote: Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Author: Confucius
Quote: God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.
Author: Unknown
Quote: What is required for effective change is continuity of sincere effort to release and let go of inefficient thought patterns from the past.
Author: Doc Childre
Quote: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Quote: The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart.
Author: John Welwood
Quote: Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
Author: Caroline Schoeder
Quote: The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Author: I. Krishnamurti
Quote: Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Quote: The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the virtual reality we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived.
Author: David Schwartz
Quote: The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Author: Marilyn Ferguson
Quote: Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.
Author: W. H. Murray
Quote: Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
Author: John Steinbeck
Quote: We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
Author: Jessamyn West
Quote: The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.
Author: John Schaar
Quote: Don't fear change, embrace it.
Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo
Quote: Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Author: Goethe
Quote: Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Quote: Nothing endures but change.
Author: Heraclitus
Quote: To change one's life: 1. Start immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions.
Author: William James
Quote: Change in all things is sweet.
Author: Aristotle
Quote: Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo
Quote: There is nothing permanent except change.
Author: Heraclitus
Quote: If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
Author: James Hillman
Quote: You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Quote: Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Author: Unknown
Quote: When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Author: Dr. Robert Anthony
Quote: Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour.
Author: Robert Frost
Quote: A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked,Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle? Muste replied, Oh, I don't do it to change the country, I do it so the country won't change me.
Author: Andrea Ayvazian
Quote: You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are constantly flowing on.
Author: Heraclitus
Quote: Only that which is provisional endures.
Author: French proverb
Quote: In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Author: Ernst Fischer
Quote: The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Quote: In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
Author: Alvin Toffler
Quote: It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
Author: American proverb
Quote: There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Author: Anais Nin
Quote: The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Author: Charles Dubois
Quote: ... while we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Quote: All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Quote: To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Author: Henri Bergson
Quote: Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Author: Henry Steele Commager
Quote: Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.
Author: Heraklietos of Ephesos
Quote: The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
Author: Ivy Baker Priest
Quote: For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
Author: James Baldwin
Quote: A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
Author: Katharine Butler Hathaway
Quote: The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
Author: M. Scott Peck
Quote: The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Quote: Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Author: Margaret Mead
Quote: It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.
Author: Marilyn Ferguson
Quote: We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Author: Mary Antin
Quote: Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Author: Nelson Mandela
Quote: I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Author: Pablo Picasso
Quote: Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work -- on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself -- it must be organized for constant change.
Author: Peter F. Drucker
Quote: Life is a progress, and not a station.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Author: Robert F. Kennedy
Quote: We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Author: William Shakespeare
Quote: Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Author: Thomas A. Kempis
Quote: The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Author: Tom Robbins
Quote: In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces.
Author: Unknown
Quote: If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Author: Woodrow Wilson