Quotes by Subject: Change
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'Tis is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. | |||
When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents the danger and the other represents opportunity. | * | ||
Keep changing. When you're through changing, you're through. | * | ||
When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it. | |||
Change your thoughts and you change your world. | |||
There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down -- until,until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living. | |||
Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. | |||
When you blame others, you give up your power to change. | |||
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. | * | ||
A revolution is not a dinner party. | |||
The study of change...is the study of survival. | |||
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. | |||
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries. | |||
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. | |||
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future. | |||
It is never too late to be what you might have been. | |||
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. | |||
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. | |||
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? | |||
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. | |||
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. | |||
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. | |||
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. | * | ||
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. | |||
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. | |||
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. | * | ||
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. | * | ||
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. | |||
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. | * | ||
There are moments when everything goes well, but don?t be frightened, it won?t last. | |||
People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first. | |||
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. | |||
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. | |||
Every reform is only a mask under cover of which a more terrible reform, which dares not yet name itself, approaches. | |||
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. | * | ||
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. | * | ||
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. | * | ||
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. | |||
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. | |||
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. | |||
We are the change we have been waiting for. | * | ||
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big. | * | ||
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. | |||
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. | |||
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