Change Quotes - Page 5

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

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.

If you do what you've always done you'll get what you've always gotten.

Anonymous

Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being.

To live is to change and to be perfect is to change often.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort for change is the essence of life.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Herbert Spencer

When you're through changing you're through.

Change is the only evidence of life.

To exist is to change to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann von Goethe

Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

Shirley Maclaine

What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid boundless colored mutability!-Life in the making?

You must change in order to survive.

The basic fact of today is the tremendous.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change and change is the basic law.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.

George Bernard Shaw

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles one would hardly see anybody.

Agatha Christie

I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.

Joanne Woodward

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness a jolt from normality a sharpening of the edge of appetite his own little festival of the Saturnalia a brief excursion from his way of life.

Because things are the way they are things will not stay the way they are.

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change of perpetual flux.

Sir James Frazer

Wherever we are it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else and whatever we do however well we do it it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All is change all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.

James Russell Lowell

Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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.

All things change nothing is extinguished.

Ovid

Life is always at some turning point.

Everything flows nothing stays still.

Nothing in this world is permanent.

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.

Nothing is permanent but change.

Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.

Pindar

Impermanence is the law of the universe.

Carlene Hatcher Polite

Everything changes but change itself.

Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.

Talmud

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

Berenice Abbott

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

Change is the law of life.

As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.

When you get there there isn't any there there.

Change must be measured from a known base line.

I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.

I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day but no change at all ivry fifty years.

Finley Peter Dunne

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

Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.

Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.

I've learned only that you never say never.

Marina von Neumann Whitman

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too.

The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.

What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.

T.S Eliot

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies new contrasts new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other to their work to surrounding objects.

Henry Ward Beecher

Just when I think I have learned the way to live life changes.

We change whether we like it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

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