Change Quotes
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.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.
Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
This Mouse must give up one of his Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow.
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."
It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
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.
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.
Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.
Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.
Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
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.
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.
He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.