Quotes About Change

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

I think that if there was one mistake that I took away, it would affect the man that I am today.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.

The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.