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Quotes About Change

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
~ Brian Mulroney
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.
~ Ricky Williams
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
~ Susan Sontag
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
~ George Edward Woodberry
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change
~ Elizabeth Lesser
One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.
~ Shawn Achor
Prayer never changes the laws of nature.
~ Dan Barker
How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.
~ John Muir
Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.
~ Shashi Deshpande
No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.
~ Ananda Coomaraswamy
...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.
~ Anne Sexton
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
~ John Steinbeck
I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.
~ Elsa Peretti
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.
~ Paul J. McAuley
Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.
~ Joshua L. Liebman
Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
~ Rachel Carson
Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
~ Napoleon Hill
Each moment of the year has its own beauty.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.
~ George Foreman