Quotes About Change

When asked what they want, many adults will say what they want to get rid of.

The always popular notion that the United States is in "moral decline" (a phrase favored in the pulpits and the press of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) rests on the assumption that Americans used to be far more religious and should strive to return to their former fidelity.

The American experiment was frequently shaped by a rejection of old ways and openness to the new. In religious terms, this rejection created over time a nation unique in its ability to absorb and be built by those of different beliefs; people who believed there were many gods, or none at all.

Company. Copyright 1951 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by arrangement with Henry Holt and Company, LLC. Peter Marren has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this

Judas sought regeneration through revolution, instead of revolution through regeneration.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Never before in history had the world actually believed in the equality of man.

Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form…the cosmic radiation that is thought to come from the explosion of creation strikes the earth with equal intensity from all directions, which suggests either that the earth is at the center of the universe, as in our innocence we once supposed, or that the known universe has no center.

The '60s were an amazing time.

Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in ... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

If I didn't act quickly I'd be forced to face the consequences of what had happened every day of the week. I decided to do what any maladjusted commitmentphobe would do. I decided to run away to africa.

What we find changes who we become.

The journey transforms the destination.

time when learning how to learn (and unlearn) is central to success. Instead of hiding from change, let's embrace it. Each time we try something new, we get better at getting better. Experience builds competence and confidence, so we're ready for the big changes, like re-thinking what we do.

When Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,"[ 49] he was inviting us to be free.

The other political parties hurriedly dissolved themselves,

Few things in war can be as costly as doctrinal rigidity.

LA needs the cleansing of a great disaster or founding of a barricaded commune.

Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.

In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force, perhaps even stronger. Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.