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Quotes About Change

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.
~ Robert Moses
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.
~ Lady Astor
To change and to improve are two different things.
~ German proverb
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.
~ Alice Meynell
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
~ Irene Peter
To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
~ William O. Douglas
You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.
~ Henry B. Wilson
All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.
~ Marcel Proust
It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.
~ Latin proverb
You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.
~ Henry B. Wilson
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
~ Brooks Atkinson
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
~ Luther Burbank
My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.
~ Luigi Pirandello
He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
~ Tyron Edwards
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
~ Jonathan Swift
The world's a scene of changes and to be constant in nature is inconstancy.
~ Abraham Cowley
True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
~ John C. Calhoun
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
~ Aldous Huxley
The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.
~ Edward Noyes Westcott
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
~ James Russell Lowell