Quotes About Change

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

Death has no power to change moral qualities," he insisted in a Decoration Day speech in 1883. "Whatever else I may forget," the aging abolitionist declared, "I shall never forget the difference between those who fought for liberty and those who fought for slavery.

Working women seemed "brazen," even to those like Lila Chunn who understood and encouraged necessary departures from tradition.

Joynes was careful to maintain the notion of separate spheres, even as he advocated significant change. A reformed system of women's schooling "should be based upon the idea that woman is woman, and not man-nor a butterfly," neither man's "plaything nor his rival.

He sounded like a lot of the youth in our community, stuck between the past and the future. The true goal is finding enough of both to make your life worth living.

Who changes, who even slows this dead dazzling drunk in the wings of life we live?

On war-torn land streams flow and mountains stand

Eventually all things become cliché.

If ever we find the truth to be offensive, then we must be prepared to change what is true.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

One has to move from one's comfort zone to challenge oneself.

The "Six Veins" of Alibaba's "Spirit Sword" are "customer first, teamwork, embrace change, integrity, passion, and commitment.

we routinely explain social trends in terms of what society "is ready for." But the only way we know society is ready for something is because it happened. Thus, in effect, all we are really saying is that "X happened because that's what people wanted; and we know that X is what they wanted because X is what happened."5

In other words, the shift from "predict and control" to "measure and react" is not just technological—although technology is needed—but psychological.

All of us are autumn leaves, ready to fall at any time.

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

Life is full of change, and that change eventually leads to whatever in our hearts.

When you walk behind and you're not a leader, the view never changes.

you. It wasn't time wasted, and we ain't kids anymore, either.

Young twigs will bend but not old trees.

Life is a series of changes—a process of going from the old to the new—from chronos to kairos. Growth, change, revival—all are processes. Life is connected. Not understanding this, we tend to despise the chronos times of preparing, sowing, believing and persevering. Our preference is to always live in the kairos times of fresh and strategic opportunities.

History can never be changed, but it can be healed.

Remember that people come into your life for a purspose, so if they leave it's because that purpose has been filled. So, when they leave, keep living.