Change Quotes - Page 4

Never swap horses crossing a stream

American proverb

Earth changes but thy soul and God stand sure.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

I am not now That which I have been.

There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in travelling in a stagecoach that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

Washington Irving

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?

Bible

The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.

Charles Kingsley

Revolutions are not made they come.

Wendell Phillips

The old order changeth yielding place to new.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

It's quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person- beguiled enchanted.

We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

Johann von Goethe

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

Rollo May

The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability.

Let a man turn to his own childhood-no further-if he will renew his sense of remoteness and of the mystery of change.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

People change and forget to tell each other.

Lillian Hellman

When you have a baby you set off an explosion in your marriage and when the dust settles your marriage is different from what it was. Not better necessarily not worse necessarily but different.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay and this is common to the entire universe.

Marcus Aurelius

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.

Marilyn Ferguson

We measure success and depth by length and time but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

Barbara Hershey

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment my life changed.

Shirley Maclaine

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge and each marked off by some intense experience.

Readjusting is a painful process but most of us need it at one time or another.

Arthur Christopher Benson

For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must strictly speaking at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

Rainer Maria Rilke

To remain young one must change.

Alexander Chase

Where the old tracks are lost new country is revealed with its wonders.

Rabindranath Tagore

Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable changeless state it were a cause indeed to weep.

William Cullen Bryant

Only in growth reform and change paradoxically enough is true security to be found.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If folks can learn to be racist then they can learn to be antiracist. If being sexist ain't genetic then dad gum people can learn about gender equality.

Johnnetta Betsch Cole

Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.

Benjamin Disraeli

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

We can say "Peace on Earth." We can sing about it preach about it or pray about it but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us then it will not be.

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

Grace Murray Hopper

Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?

Marcus Aurelius

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

The mind of the most logical thinker goes so easily from one point to another that it is not hard to mistake motion for progress.

Margaret Collier Graham

The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles F. Kettering

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb and to seek the mountain view.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

George Santayana

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

Washington Irving

None of us knows what the next change is going to be what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.

Kathleen Norris

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness but in allowing happiness to change its form ... happiness like a child must be allowed to grow up.

Charles L. Morgan

In embracing change entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity not a threat.

Prince Phillip of England

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

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Continuity gives us roots change gives us branches letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.

Pauline R. Kezer

I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

The things we fear most in organizations-fluctuations disturbances imbalances-are the primary sources of creativity.

Margaret J. Wheatley

It is in changing that things find purpose.

Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

In all change well looked into the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.

Francis Thompson

The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come.

James Russell Lowell

Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.

Anonymous

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