Quotes About Change

experience is comparable to fashion; an action that proved successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow. Only principles endure

What you wish can only be accomplished by changing one person at a time.

As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men.

Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not, for today I am a new man, with a new life.

only a habit can subdue another habit. So

El tazón roto se convierte en espada aguda. Todas las cosas que se han roto se vuelven espadas.

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

Jeg er bare en ganske alminnelig mann som ikke kan forandre noe som helst jeg

Half asleep, he wondered whether that might not have been his happiest day ever, the last, perfect day swelling with the immensity of his secret intent, secret creation—the day before everything changed—the day before he realized, for the first time, yet with absolute finality, just how small his private immensity really was when measured against that other vast, dark, impersonal immensity, call it God, or history, or simply life.

As he strode through the deserted city, he thought of the New Years of his childhood, before he was ten, before the Change, when the city had still glowed with the soft, deep enchantment of sugared angels spreading their sparkling wings in bakery windows, and bells whose limpid sounds rose like the sea at a moonlit tide, and glass ornaments turning slowly this way and that on dark tree branches, gathering in their reflections the whole wondrous, promise-filled world.

When Love and Life first meet, a radiant thing is born, without a shade. When the roads begin to roughen, when the shades begin to darken, when the days are hard, and the nights cold and long—then it begins to change.

For better or worse, most people's lives seem to turn out rather differently from what they had expected

People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.

I believe in the meaning of honor and integrity. I am an action person who feels personally responsible for making any changes in this world that are in my power . . . because if I don't, no one else will. — Mike Spann, excerpt from his CIA application

A man is made by his circumstances... If you want to change him, change his circumstances.

I came like water, and like wind I go

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction