Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.
– Chinese Proverb
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
– Mark Twain
We must become the change we want to see.
– Mahatma Gandhi
When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too.
– Bayard Rustin
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Why are we so afraid of Change? The only thing that is constant in the Creation of Reality is CHANGE!
– Gordana Biernat
Yes, I have cherished my "demagogue" role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America - then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.
– "Malcom X" ( 1964), The Atobiograghy of Malcom X
You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both.
– Kenneth Cole, fashion show speech
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
– Brian Tracy
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Your history doesn’t matter, defining yourself in the present does as that will change your future
– Chris Hartley
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
– Saint Francis of Assisi
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
– Maya Angelou
If you aren't happy with your life, change things until you are... if you can't change something, change your attitude about it.
– Ingrid Weir
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
– Marquis de Sade
Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change...
– Barack Obama
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
– Winston Churchill
Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
– Kim Hubbard
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
– Stephen Covey
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.
– Erica Jong
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.
– Stanislaw Ulam
Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
– Robert Burns
People change and forget to tell eachother.
– Lillian Hellman
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.
– George Santayana
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
