Change Quotes

Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."

To be honest one must be inconsistent.

The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead.

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.

A conclusion is a place where you got tired of thinking.

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

Any truth creates a scandal.

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

The key to change ... is to let go of fear.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.

We must therefore take account of this changeable nature of things and of human institutions and prepare for them with enlightened foresight.

You don't have to be afraid of change. You don't have to worry about what's being taken away. Just look to see what's been added.

When you're stuck in a spiral to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

The more things change the more they remain the same.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they cannot alter.

The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.

Change is the constant the signal for rebirth the egg of the phoenix.

Change is what people fear most.

Nature's mighty law is change.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change not destruction which takes place.

The old order changeth yielding place to new and God fulfills himself in many ways.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.

In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.

Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs it is the parting.

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.

A man's fortune must first be changed from within.

There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Without imagination nothing is dangerous.

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...

As we learn we always change and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.

We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

The longer you blame the mirror, the longer you throw away the power to change what it is reflecting.

From school desks with inkwells and scratchy nibs on paper to sweaty finger prints on a tablet... technology progression yes... style?

It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.

Extract and expel implicit biases from your work life. Don't taint our visitors with your bias and views. Allow them to form their own conclusions where it's developmentally appropriate.

If you cannot change your circumstances, then change your attitude.

The hugest changes were the ones that could not be seen – that’s where the real apocalypse lay: in people’s hearts, their souls, their beings.