Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Change

Change

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.--H. G. Wells
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.--Richard M. Nixon
Any form of art is a form of power, it has impact, it can affect change--it can not only move us, it makes us move.--Ossie Davis
As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.--Carl G. Jung (Man and His Symbols)
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.--Francis Hodgson Burnett
Autumn to winter, winter to spring,
Spring into summer, summer into fall--
So rolls the changing year, and so we change;
Motion so swift, we know not that we move.--Dinah Mulock Craik
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.--Jesse Jackson
Celebrate each season, for you too, are transformed with the turns of the earth.--Arthur Dobrin
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.--Hillary Rodham Clinton
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.--Herbert Otto
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Change in all things is sweet.--Aristotle
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.--Glenda Cloud
Change is not a process for the impatient.--Barbara Reinhold
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.--Richard Hooker
Change is often rejuvenating, invigoration, fun ... and necessary.--Lynn Povich
Change is the end result of all true learning.--Leo Buscaglia
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.--John.F. Kennedy
Change isn't optional, and creation isn't something that happened a long time ago and then ended. It's ongoing, and we are invited to be a part of it. The question for us is 'what will we create in this new day?' How will we make it count? How will we nourish the things that matter, and stand in the way of injustice in the small ways that add up to the arc of history? You are invited to participate in the creation of this day...--David LaMotte (in the 12 Days of Christmas Devotions by the God Article, Day 6, Dec. 30, 2012)
Change starts when someone sees the next step.--William Drayton
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.--Gail Sheehy
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.--Gloria Steinem
A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.--L. C. Thurow
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.--Bernard Berenson
Courage is the atom of change.--Bettina R. Flores
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.--Abraham Lincoln
Don't make excuses. Make things happen. Make changes. Then make history.--Doug Hall (The Maverick Mindset)
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.--Leo Tolstoy
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.--Nikki Giovanni
For many people security is a heavy weight around them that won't let them consider a serious change in direction.--Thomas Moore (A Life at Work)
The four seasons of nature are a helpful way to recognize that there are profound changes that can come with the seasons of our lives. Recognizing the seasons, honors the changes in our lives. Honoring the seasons, honors the truth that some changes are welcome, and some are not. But to live, is to know change.--Lynn Holt ("A New Season")
The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.--John Muir
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it that way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counterclockwise.--Grace Hopper
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.--Dodie Smith
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.--Anna Quindlen
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.--Shirley MacLaine
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time...is a very good one...--Emerson
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.--Carl Jung
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.--Anne Bradstreet (Meditations Divine and Moral)
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.--Lao-Tzu
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?--Robert Anthony
If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it. If something doesn't please you, change it. You don't ever have to be the same after today. If you don't like your present address change it - you're not a tree!--Jim Rohn (The Gift of Change)
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.--Marian Wright Edelman
If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got.--W. L. Bateman
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.--Kurt Lewin
In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often.--John Henry Cardinal Newman
In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change--breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.--Susan Taylor
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.--Hubert de Burgh
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.--John Kenneth Galbraith
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.--Al Rogers
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.---John C. Calhoun
Inspire yourself and others will be inspired. Motivate yourself and others will be motivated. Develop yourself and others will start to develop themselves. Be an example first and then the world changes around you.--Unknown
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different.--C. S. Lewis
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.--Isaac Asimov ("My Own View" in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ed. by Holdstock)
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.--Kenich Ohmae
It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.--Carlos Casteneda
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.-- W. Edwards Deming
It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress.--Millard Fillmore
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.--Machiavelli
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.--Alan Cohen
It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear.... It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.--Marilyn Ferguson
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.--Mignon McLaughlin
Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders.--Vince Poscente (Invinceable Principles)
Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself.--Unknown
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incomptetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.--Everett Dirksen
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.--Alan Alda
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. --Thomas Paine
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.--Mark Twain
Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.--Elaine St. James
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.--Colin Wilson
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.--Jawharlal Nehru
The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive … and begin to act accordingly.--Shakti Gawain
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.--Phyllis Bottome (Survival)
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
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.--John Locke
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe love nothing so much as to change… The Universe is change.--Marcus Aurelius
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who as learned to read, humiliate the person who feels pride, and you cannot oppress people who are not afraid anymore.--Cesar Chavez
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.--Ann Morrow Lindbergh
The only way that worry will stop is through the proper understanding that change is the very basis of life, that we cannot continuously have something we like.--Ramesh S. Balsekar
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.--Alan Watts
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.--Lesley Poles Hartley (The Go-Between)
People are most likely to change when they:
- hurt enough that they have to;
- learn enough that they want to;
- receive enough that they are able to.--John Maxwell
People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.--Charles F. Kettering
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.--Arthur C. Clarke
People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.--Roger Porter (speech in Detroit, MI, June 1990)
The people who oppose your ideas the most are those who represent the establishment that your ideas will upset.--Anthony J. D'Angelo
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.--Marianne Williamson
The power of love and caring can change the world.--James Autry
Real change is seldom a giant step. It’s usually a small one. Small but deeply real. We hold the fear and the faith at the same time and we cross the bridge slowly. When we get to the other side, we have been transformed- not by the step itself- but by the willingness to stay open during the crossing. That’s what changes us- creating a space inside for a new way of being to emerge.--Jeff Brown (on Facebook, 3/28/14 (from Love it Forward?))
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.--Antoine de Saint Exupery
Slaying sacred cows makes great steaks.--Dick Nicolosi
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.--Dave E. Smalley
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.--Lisa Alther
There are ... two kinds of people: those who are changing and those who are setting themselves up to be victims of change. As the world continues to march on around us, if I am only maintaining the status quo--if I'm not growing--then I'm falling behind.--Jim Clemmer (Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success)
There is nothing like returning to a place that reamins unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.--Nelson Mandela
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.--Niccolo Machiavelli
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.--Andy Warhol. (The Philosophy of Andy Warhol)
Things do not change; we change.--Henry David Thoreau
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed up on the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand.--William Butler Yeats ("The Second Coming")
To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow--that is the secret to being happy.--Joan Lunden
To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.--Ed Allen
To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.--Isabelle Adjani
To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.--George B. Leonard
To stand still is to lose,
To move is to gain,
To change is to grow.--Gene E. Megiveron
Tolerate, change, or be grateful.--Rickie Moore (A Goddess in My Shoes)
The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.--Saint Peter of Alcantara
Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?--Rumi
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.--Harrison Ford
We can go confidently into the future and accept the change that growth demands only if we have firm roots in the past, in a living tradition.--Leonard Foley
We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.--Neil Gaiman
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is disappearing.--R. D. Laing
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.--Jimmy Carter
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, bu changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.--Anna Jameson
When a man does a piece of work which is admired by all we say that it is wonderful; but when we see the changes of day and night, the sun, the moon, and the stars in the sky, and the changing seasons upon the earth, with their ripening fruits, anyone must realize that it is the work of someone more powerful than man.--Chased-by-Bears (1843-1915, Santee-Yanktonai Sioux Nature)
When assuming the throne, great kings are not judged by how many good changes they may make; rather, on how little they change the things which are already good.--Jeff Estep
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change ... you will change.--Dr. Robert Anthony
When it comes to changes, people like only those they make themselves.--French proverb
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.--Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol: In His Own Words)
When we are no longer able to change a situation … we are challenged to change ourselves.--Victor Frankl
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.--Paulo Coelho (The Devil and Miss Prym)
When you are finished changing, you’re finished.--Ben Franklin
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.--Robert Anthony (Dr.)
While it is wise to accept what we cannot change about ourselves, it is also good to remember that we are never too old to replace discouragement with bits and pieces of confidence and hope.--Elaine N. Aron (The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You)
[Whilst] everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates. That informing power or spirit is God...--Mahatma Gandi
Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.--Dale Turner
Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.--Frank A. Clark
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.--William Pollard (The Soul of the Firm)
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.--Dwight David Eisenhower
You change your life by changing your heart.--Max Lucado
You don't have to be afraid of change. You don't have to worry about what's been taken away. Just look to see what's been added.--Jackie Greer
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.--Mahatma Gandhi