Quotes About Change

There comes a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.

Time is wicked. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, stealing our youth, our beauty, and our bodies.

All I know is, the more I rebuilt, the more I realized that just because things hadn't worked out as I'd planned didn't mean things couldn't work out at all.

There comes a time in every man's life," he'd said in the halting, ghostly voice his stroke had left him, "when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.

A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability. [Report to the United States Senate on his trip to Latin America and the Alliance for Progress, May 9-10 1966]

Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation.

The responsibility of our time is nothing less than a revolution. A revolution that would be peaceful if we are wise enough; humane if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough. But a revolution will come whether we will it or not. We can affect it's character, we cannot alter it's inevitability.

Since technologies change so quickly, it is necessary to have overarching policies that can manage the various information technology (IT) platforms that an organization may use.

Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you.

A cautious revolutionary? You're not going to get anywhere like that.

Takes a while for a person to decide what they like best. Some folks never do decide. Always changing their mind, back and forth.

The secret is to create the condition for change, a process that sometimes takes decades, and then use certain men as pivot points, a fulcrum to move history.

new fresh faces of the Republic.

Friendship isn´t be inseparable it's be separated and knowing nothing will change.

Si [...] estamos dispuestos a renunciar a la idea de quién creemos ser cada uno, no habrá oposición alguna entre ambos.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.