Change Quotes

The hugest changes were the ones that could not be seen – that’s where the real apocalypse lay: in people’s hearts, their souls, their beings.

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognize

Marguerite Duras

If you cannot change your circumstances, then change your attitude.

In the case of Tunisia, it was indeed this single act that sparked what had been long-standing active protest movements and moved them forward. But that's not so unusual. Let's look at our own history. Take the civil rights movement. There had been plenty of concern and activism about violent repression of blacks in the South, and it took a couple of students sitting in at a lunch counter to really set it off. Small acts can make a big difference when there is a background of concern, understanding, and preliminary activism.

The longer you blame the mirror, the longer you throw away the power to change what it is reflecting.

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...

As we learn we always change and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.

Hyemeyohsts Storm

We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Lyman Lloyd Bryson

One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

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

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change not destruction which takes place.

Florence Nightingale

The old order changeth yielding place to new and God fulfills himself in many ways.

Alfred

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

Lois Wyse

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.

It's a bad plan that can't be changed.

Publilius Syrus

In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.

Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

Margery Allingham

It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs it is the parting.

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

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.

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

The hearts of great men can be changed.

Homer

You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.

A man's fortune must first be changed from within.

Chinese Proverb

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Niccolò Machiavelli

There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Without imagination nothing is dangerous.

Georgette Leblanc

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Katherine Mansfield

The moment of change is the only poem.

Change is not made without inconvenience even from worse to better.

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 into another.

The key to change ... is to let go of fear.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly completely successfully or just completely the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

Since changes are going on anyway the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in they are to be utilized and directed.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Caleb Colton

To change skins evolve into new cycles I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic living use.

Today changes must come fast and we must adjust our mental habits so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

Donald M. Nelson

We must therefore take account of this changeable nature of things and of human institutions and prepare for them with enlightened foresight.

You don't have to be afraid of change. You don't have to worry about what's being taken away. Just look to see what's been added.

When you're stuck in a spiral to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

Christina Baldwin

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do it's something you allow.

The more things change the more they remain the same.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they cannot alter.

Change lays her hand not upon the truth.

Algernon Swinburne

The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.

Change is the constant the signal for rebirth the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

Change is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Change means the unknown.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nature's mighty law is change.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead.

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

Henry S. Haskins

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Mignon McLaughlin

Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure so immovable so disdainful so contemplative so solemn and serious as an ass?

Michel de Montaigne

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.

John Kenneth Galbraith

A conclusion is a place where you got tired of thinking.

Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.

John H. Patterson

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