CHANGE

It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
American proverb

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.
Irene Porter

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Karen Kaiser Clark

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.
Mary S. Almanac

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
Thomas Carlyle

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Mary Antin

A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked,Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle? Muste replied, Oh, I don't do it to change the country, I do it so the country won't change me.
Andrea Ayvazian

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
Thomas Carlyle

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
Thomas Carlyle

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.
Abernathy

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Adlai E. Stevenson

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.
General Adalphos

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
John A. Simone, Sr

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
Francis Bacon

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

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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 is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
John F. Kennedy

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.
John Schaar

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.
William O. Douglas

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
Thomas p Kempis

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.
Elspeth Huxley

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 every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
Isaac Asimov

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
Jacob M. Braude

It is change; all yields its place and goes.
Euripides

To change one's life: 1. Start immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions.
William James

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
Plutarch

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A Course In Miracles

Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
Robert Heinlein

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.
Leo Buscaglia

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
Marcel Proust

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Lord Alfred Tennyson

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
John Ruskin

People can cry much easier than they can change.
James Baldwin

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao-Tzu

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.
John W. Draper

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
Jean Paul

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.
Charles A. Garfield

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.
Bhagavad Gita

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
Menander of Athens

In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
Alvin Toffler

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
Spanish Proverbs