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Quotes About Change

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.
~ Everett M. Dirksen
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
~ Woodrow Wilson
You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.
~ Heraclitus
There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.
~ Henry George
We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
~ Lyman Lloyd Bryson
I expect some new phases of life this summer and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
~ Lucy Stone
When you're in love you put up with things that when you're out of love you cite.
~ Judith Martin
For years I wanted to be older and now I am.
~ Margaret Atwood
Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
~ Susan Sontag
Our destiny changes with our thoughts we shall become what we wish to become do what we wish to do when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Never think any oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.
~ James A. Farley
True revolutions ... restore more than they destroy.
~ Louise Bogan
Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
~ Euripides
Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five and the worst actually began to happen.
~ Delia Ephron
It is no use blaming the men-we made them what they are-and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves-the makers of men-a little more responsible.
~ Nancy Astor
I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.
~ Arthur Smith
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
~ Greg Anderson
I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.
~ Koren Zailckas
Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!
~ Mark A. Cooper
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
~ Coretta Scott King
We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.
~ Antonio Gramsci
Remember that consciousness is power. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.
~ Yuri Kochiyama
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
~ Muhammad Ali