Quotes
Quotes about Change
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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 we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Things do not change; we change.
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.
Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. -Jessamyn West.
We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -Marilyn Ferguson.
Don't fear change, embrace it. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William James.
Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down. That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons. I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.
Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye... -Corinthians.
