Change Quotes
Most popular change quotes
Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.
They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post.
Above all, I see the preaching ministry as a dual process. On the one hand I must attempt to change the soul of individuals so that their societies may be changed. On the other I must attempt to change the societies so that the individual soul will have a change. Therefore, I must be concerned about unemployment, slums, and economic insecurity. I am a profound advocate of the social gospel.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
We are tomorrow's past.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Change is not merely necessary to life. It is life.
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.
Not everything you face in life can be changed, but you can change nothing until you have faced it.
In wisdom we acknowledge that everything changes. What is born will die. What dies nourishes life in its many forms.
Ben Graham had a lot to learn as an investor. His ideas of how to value companies were all shaped by how the Great Crash and the Depression almost destroyed him. It left him with an aftermath of fear for the rest of his life, and all his methods were designed to keep that at bay.
Any year that passes in which you don't destroy one of your best loved ideas is a wasted year.
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.
Life, in part, is like a poker game, wherein you have to learn to quit sometimes when holding a much-loved hand—you must learn to handle mistakes and new facts that change the odds.
Favorable surprises are easy to handle. It's the unfavorable surprises that cause the trouble.
Good weather never lasts forever on this earth.
We are like the Apostles in the Gospel: often we would prefer to hold on to our own security... We are afraid of God's surprises! He always surprises us! The Lord is like that. Dear brothers and sisters, let us not be closed to the newness that God wants to bring into our lives!
The years forever fashion new dreams when old ones go. God pity a one-dream man!
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
If things were really as we wanted them to be, people would still complain that they were no longer what they used to be.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
![[The loss of old companies is] inevitably what happens. That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are we going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority. - Steve Jobs quote.](/img/q/19/15419A-the-loss-of-old-companies-is-inevitably-what-happens-thats-steve-jobs.png)
[The loss of old companies is] inevitably what happens. That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are we going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority.
When we look deeply at the nature of things, we see that in fact everything is impermanent. Nothing exists as a permanent entity; everything changes. It is said that we cannot step into the same river twice. If we look for a single, permanent entity in a river, we will not find it. The same is true of our physical body. There is no such thing as a self, no absolute, permanent entity to be found in the element we call "body." In our ignorance we believe that there is a permanent entity in us, and our pain and suffering manifest on the basis of that ignorance. If we touch deeply the nonself nature in us, we can get out of that suffering.
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.
Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents.
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
God does not play dice with the universe.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Today even our clocks are not made of clockwork — so why should our world be? With the advent of quantum mechanics, the clockwork world has become a cosmic lottery. Fundamental events, such as the decay of a radioactive atom, are held to be determined by chance, not law.
Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parents. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
Love is more afraid of change than destruction.
It behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.
Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.
Wise and prudent men — intelligent conservatives — have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.
Weep not that the world changes–did it keep A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
Change is constant in a progressive country.
Change is not progress.
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
Nothing endures but change.
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. Obviously, then, one's character and frame of mind determine how readily he brings about change and how he reacts to change that is imposed on him.
The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
The human tendency prefers familiar horrors to unknown delights.
You must change in order to survive.
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.
It is best not to swap horses while crossing the river.
The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease can be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must begin somewhere.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
It has long since become a familiar observation that generals regularly spend their time preparing to fight the war. Managers often do the same. Whether from the force of habit or from the appeal of comfortable modes of thought and action, they often fail to see how the problems that beset them are unlike those with which they have become familiar.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
It is never too late—in fiction or in life—to revise.
You can't change the music of your soul.
All birth is unwilling.
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
Change means movement. Movement means friction.
That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
The sad thing is that, even though we know our lives aren't working in certain areas, we are still afraid to change. We are locked into our comfort zone, no matter how self-destructive it may be.
We would rather be ruined than changed.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
A man marries a woman hoping she'll never change—and she does. A woman marries a man hoping he will change—and he doesn't.
Before you'll change, something important must be at risk.
We must change in order to survive.
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"
For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Weep not that the world changes—did it keep A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Funny thing about change, it's like pulling off a bandage. Hurts like hell when you do it, but you always feel better after.
It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.
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!
People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.
If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
People change and forget to tell each other.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.
Change can be exhilarating, refreshing—a chance to meet challenges, a chance to clean house. It means excitement when it is considered normal, when people expect it routinely, like a daily visit from the mail carrier—known—bringing a set of new messages—unknown.
There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
People are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.
Ignorance is always afraid of change. It fears the unknown and sticks to its rut, however miserable it may be there. In its blindness it stumbles on anyhow.
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
We can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new.
A single moment can change all.
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.
Seeing the change does not equal creating the change.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
