logo

Quotes About Change

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.
~ Marcus Buckingham
Who to tell what tomorrow will bring forth? Did they not laugh at Moses, Christ and Mohammed? Was there not a Carthage, Greece and Rome? We see and have changes every day, so pray, work, be steadfast and be not dismayed.
~ Marcus Garvey
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
~ Marcus Garvey
No one knows when the hour of Africa's Redemption cometh. It is in the wind. It is coming. One day, like a storm, it will be here.
~ Marcus Garvey
There's going to be a period of violent upheaval, which will impact upon our sense of security, our values and beliefs. The broadcast is about to be cut off. You can't rely upon the messenger anymore. But then, you never could. Rely upon yourself instead, and those you know and trust. Stand up and be counted. Be resourceful, be creative. Things can't ever be what they were, so don't try to go back. Don't numb yourself to life. Try to enjoy yourself. It's later than you think...
~ Unknown
The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here.
~ Marcus J. Borg
Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.
~ Marcus J. Borg
This thing is not going to last forever, and the flaming ferris wheel will continue to spin without you.
~ Marcus Luttrell
much of anything. But put a series together and patterns emerged. Some were obvious: haircuts, weight gained or lost, fashion trends. Others required
~ Marcus Sakey
Cooper said nothing. "Jesus." Quinn rubbed at his eyes. "Wait. How does this get him what he wants? Things are worse now for abnorms than ever before. The microchipping, the hate crimes, hell, every third congressman holding press conferences to say we need to lock you all up.
~ Marcus Sakey
To pen a new history, one written in fire. And
~ Marcus Sakey
Good news, bad news.
~ Marcus Sakey
It was like that old riddle about replacing the handle of an axe, and later the head—when you were done, was it a new axe or the old one?
~ Marcus Sakey
The rats that had once fouled their food became their food. But soon the rats were gone.
~ Marcus Sakey
year in the US. So
~ Marcus Sakey
You can't stop the future. All you can do is pick a side.
~ Marcus Sakey
But there was no pressing CTRL+Z on a day, no loading a previous copy.
~ Marcus Sakey
You want to change the world? Forget politics. Learn to code.
~ Marcus Sakey
Revolution? You're an idiot. You don't even know what that word means. Forget your precious Mao and Che and Fidel. If they've appeared on a T-shirt, they haven't changed shit. You want revolution, look at Alexander Fleming. Penicillin transformed the world in ways Lenin and Washington only dreamt of. Now sit down and shut up, you autocratic frat boy. It's adult swim.
~ Marcus Sakey
Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity. Being an engineer or an architect had once been high aspirations. Now everybody wanted to be musicians and basketball players, and America didn't build squat.
~ Marcus Sakey