Change
See also: Reform
It is easier to behave your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of behaving Kegley's Principle of Change
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal Arthur Schopenhauer
It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going Groucho Marx
There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Everything changes continually. What is history, indeed, but a record of change. And if there had been very few changes in the past, there would have been little of history to write. Jawaharlal Nehru
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge Tuli Kupferberg
Changes are not predictable; but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation Gail Sheehy
Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake Robert Moses
The main dangers in life are the people who want to change everything…or nothing Lady Astor
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed Irene Peter
All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last Marcel Proust
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Always! That is the dreadful word...it is a meaningless word, too. Oscar Wilde
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable John F. Kennedy
Everything changes but change itself John F. Kennedy
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are Bertolt Brecht
What is actual is actual only for one time, and for only one place T.S. Eliot
There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent Ralph L. Woods
We change, whether we like it or not Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you're through changing, you're through Bruce Barton
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes Hugh Prather
Life is always at some turning point Irwin Edman
Everything flows, nothing stays still Heraclitus
All things must change to something new, to something strange Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another John Dewey
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date C.S. Lewis
Change is the law of life John F. Kennedy
All is change; all yields its place and goes Euripides
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly Francis Bacon
All things change, nothing is extinguished Ovid
Nothing is permanent but change Heraclitus
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress Charles F. Kettering
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change Carl Rogers
Things do not change; we change Henry David Thoreau
Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all Vachel Lindsay
On the human chessboard, all moves are possible Miriam Schiff
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 whong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is deafeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within. Preston Bradley
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another Arthur Christopher Benson
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change Rollo May
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene Arthur Christopher Benson
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes Marcel Proust
You had better be ready to change your mind when needed, or your mind will change you Henry B. Wilson
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything George Bernard Shaw
The absurd man is he who never changes Augustine Barthelemy
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality Anwar Sadat
In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity George Santayana
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils Francis Bacon
It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise Nancy Thayer
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 Jonathan Swift
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast they shall appear to be new views Abraham Lincoln
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reality is that changes are coming. They must come. You must share in bringing them. John Henry
The world does not have to change. The only thing that has to change is our attitude Gerald Jampolsky
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies Friedrich Nietzsche
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, not even to profit by it, but to cause it Harry Emerson Fosdick
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction the sign of truth Blaise Pascal
My opinion is a view I hold until…well, until I find something that changes it Luigi Pirandello
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul Mark Twain
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority Napoleon Bonaparte
Time, in the turning-over of days, works change for better or worse Pindar
Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor William Cowper
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at an moment taking place in it Herbert Spencer
To remain young one must change Alexander Chase
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change Bertrand Russell
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Continuity in everything is unpleasant Blaise Pascal
Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
It is in changing that things find purpose Heraclitus
Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change? Marcus Aurelius
Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep William Cullen Bryant
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Prince Phillip of England
Change is the only evidence of life Evelyn Waugh
Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders Rabindranath Tagore
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes Johann von Goethe
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often John Henry Cardinal Newman
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly Henri Bergson
Someday change will be accepted as life itself Shirley MacLaine
In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability George Gilder
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to live in a stationary one, and do without change. George Bernard Shaw
Each new season grows from the leftovers of the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law. Hal Borland