Change Quotes - Page 3

All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.

It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.

The death of dogma is the birth of reality.

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

Carlos Castañeda

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old-old ideas beliefs habits even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to do something.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Helen Gurley Brown

Lose yourself wholly and the more you lose the more you will find.

Saint Catherine of Siena

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers we outgrow acquaintances libraries principles etc. at times before they're worn out and times-and this is the worst of all-before we have new ones.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is best to learn as we go not go as we have learned.

Leslie Jeanne Sahler

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future.

Simone de Beauvoir

I will not change just to court popularity.

Margaret Thatcher

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.

If you want to stand out don't be different be outstanding.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.

To change and to improve are two different things.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.

Winston Churchill

After you've done a thing the same way for two years look it over carefully. After five years look at it with suspicion. And after ten years throw it away and start all over.

Alfred Edward Perlman

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.

Karl Marx

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

If you have no will to change it you have no right to criticize it.

Anonymous

Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves "What will happen if ... ?" or better still "How can we make it happen?"

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Napoléon Bonaparte

New things cannot come where there is no room.

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

When patterns are broken new worlds emerge.

Tuli Kupferberg

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

This Mouse must give up one of his Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow.

Hyemeyohsts Storm

Compromise if not the spice of life is its solidity.

Phyllis McGinley

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road turn back.

Turkish Proverb

Duration is not a test of true or false.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Christian Bovee

The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

Everything changes but change.

Israel Zangwill

All things must change To something new to something strange.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence to change.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions and you change all.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Arthur Christopher Benson

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Things do not change we change.

Henry David Thoreau

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire but gradually our desire changes.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

The absurd man is he who never changes.

Auguste Barthelemy

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

Antonio Machado

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