Quotes About Change

The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.

The Christ event did not in that sense CHANGE the will of God, but rather it more clearly expressed God's eternal will toward the whole of history.

Big Truth, once understood and assimilated, always modifies your intent, and invariably leads to personal change.

I did not know it then, but my life was about to take a sharp turn. Strange and stranger (all carefully scientific of course) was about to become as common as air.

He that loves a rosy cheek,Or a coral lip admires,Or, from starlike eyes, doth seekFuel to maintain his fires;As old Time makes these decay,So his flames must waste away.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or soot-smeared Mumbojumbos, must needs die with it.

History is a great dust heap.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

The Age of Miracles is forever here!

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Any the smallest alteration of my silent daily habits produces anarchy in me

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

All things that have been in this world, all things that are or will be in it, have to vanish: we have our sad farewell to give them.

It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the heart of the whole business of the age, one may say, is to do it well.

The Reality had swept the Formulas away before it.

Mercury descended in vain; now has the time come for Mars.

Football is an ever changing game and my team and I must adapt out game and play to fit all new rules and current rule changes"

The gateway to the Tao is open - anyone can come in. If you know how to change directions, the goal is near at hand.

Again and again Someone in the crowd wakes up. He has no ground in the crowd And he emerges according to much broader laws. He carries strange customs with him and demands room for bold gestures. The future speaks ruthlessly through him. —Rainer Maria Rilke (Über Kunst, 1899)