“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Sir. Winston Churchill
"All change is not growth; all movement is not forward."-- Ellen Glasgow
"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 another."- Anatole France
"And so the more things stay the same, the more they change after all; nothing endures. Not a tree, not love, not even death."--Unknown
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."--Anais Nin
“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”--Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Be the change you want to see in this world.”--Ghandi
"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."- Bertold Brecht
"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."-- Arthur Schopenhauer
“Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion...The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.”-- Charles Dickens
"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them." --Henry Steele Commager
"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."- Robert C. Gallagher
“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.”-- Richard Hooker
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”--Unknown
"Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk."--William A. Ward
"Change may come from the power of many but only when the many come together can they form what is invincible, the power of one."--Unknown
“Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.”-- Saul Alinsky
"Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it."-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."--Aldous Huxley
"Constants aren't.--John Peers
“Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”--Mark Twain
"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."- Johann von Goethe
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."-- Leo Tolstoi
"Everything flows; nothing remains."-- Heraclitus
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." --Robert F. Kennedy
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."-- Francis Bacon
"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."-- Harold Wilson
“I can’t go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll
"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."- Abraham Lincoln
"I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may; consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within."-- Preston Bradley
"If the highest aim of the captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."--Thomas Aquinas
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow we are not really living."--Gail Sheehy
“If we keep on doin’ what we always done, we’ll keep on gettin’ what we always got.”--Barbara Lyons
"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it."- Mary Engelbreit
"If you do what you have always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."- Unknown
"If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore."--Shirley Hufstedler
"If you want to truly understand something, try to change it."- Kurt Lewin
"In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable."-- Benjamin Disraeli
"Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way."--Mike Vance
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be...This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.”-- Isaac Asimov
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." - W. Edwards Denning
"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."- Mignon McLaughlin
“...let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.”--Samuel Johnson
“Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.” Lord Tennyson
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”--Karen Kaiser Clark
"Never swap horses crossing a stream."-- American Proverb
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”--Margaret Mead
“Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”-Jorge Luis Borges
“One person can make a difference & every person should try.”--John F. Kennedy
"Only the wisest & stupidest of men never change."--Confucius
“Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.” Robert F. Kennedy
“That’s the risk you take with change: that people you’ve been involved with won’t like the new you. But other people who do will come along.”--Lisa Alther
“That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose & how we’ve changed because of it & what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.”--Richard Bach
“The absurd man is he who never changes.”-Unknown
“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”--Samuel Johnson
“The lapse of ages changes all things- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, & every thing "about, around, & underneath" man, except man himself.” Lord Byron
"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."- Henry Miller
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." --Colin Wilson
"The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." -Unknown
"The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions."- Ellen Glasgow
"The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal."--Deepak Chopra, MD,
"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."-- Laurence Joseph McKinley
"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."-- Charles F. Kettering
“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position & be bruised in a new place.” Washington Irving
“There is nothing permanent except change.”--Heraclitus
“There is only 1 corner of the universe you can be certain of improving & that’s your own self.”--Aldous Huxley
“There is something in the pang of change. More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness." Euripides
“There was no such thing on this earth as real change. You could change husbands, but not the situation. You could change who, but not what. We're all just spinning here, she thought, & she pictured the world as a little blue teacup, revolving like those rides at Kiddie Land where everyone is pinned to his place by centrifugal force.”--Anne Tyler
"There was that law of life, so cruel & so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."- Norman Mailer
"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."- Francis Bacon
"Things do not change, we do."-- Henry David Thoreau
"To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man."--Mahatma Gandhi
“Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in...Fear & resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.” Sir Peter Medawar
“To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.”--Alexander Chase
"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."- Harrison Ford
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.” W. Somerset Maugham
"We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped." -- Lyman Lloyd Bryson
"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."-- Carl T. Rowan
"We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect & work together in mutual regard." - John F. Kennedy
“Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.” William Cullen Bryant
"When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change."-- Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland
"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."- Anais Nin
"When you are through changing, you are through."--Bruce Barton
"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."- Shunryu Suzuki
