Quotes About Change

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time

You've got to grow up sometime.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to have changed often.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

change. Ideas change.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.

No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

One who is learning to serve should not do the same thing today as he did yesterday. If he is the same today as yesterday, he has squandered his opportunities. If we do not know what the Lord is doing today or what is going to happen today, we are missing the opportunity.

Remember that those who built the tabernacle had experienced a change of diet and had begun to be reconstituted with the element of manna. Only such people can build God's dwelling place. In fact, after being reconstituted, they themselves are the dwelling place of God.

Jeremiah 13:23 says, "Can the Cushite change his skin, / Or the leopard his spots? / Then you also may be able to do good, / Who are accustomed to do evil.

Through a process of outward decay, an inward process is taking place that is adding a new constituent to our

Our element is unending immaturity.

Don't change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest.

Some people make your life better by walking into it while other people make your life better by simply walking out of it.

...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.