Change Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In embracing change entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

To remain young one must change.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 influences to change.

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.

On the human chessboard all moves are possible.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Never swap horses crossing a stream

Earth changes but thy soul and God stand sure.

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.

All things must change To something new to something strange.

Revolutions are not made they come.

The old order changeth yielding place to new.

Everything changes but change.

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