Quotes
Quotes about Change
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
All Finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out it's context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies. Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence Science's view of intelligence itself has begun to change. Historically, "intelligence" has been defined simply as mental capacity. Some have even proposed that it is, therefore, fixed, finite, and genetically predetermined. Now it appears intelligence has other dimensions as well, physiologically and emotionally. We all have considerably more intelligence than we thought; we just have not learned to bring our capacity for intelligence into coherence. Martin Luther King, Jr. -W. MacNeile Dixon.
Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. [Fr., Ah, qui jamais autoir pu dire Que ce petit nez retrousse Changerait les lois d'un empire.]
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed Was innocence for innocence; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed That any did.
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.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
We must become the change we want to see.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
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.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.
The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.
