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Quotes About Transformation

Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
~ Ramsay Clark
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
~ Carl T. Rowan
To remain young one must change.
~ Alexander Chase
Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.
~ William Cullen Bryant
Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.
~ Sonia Johnson
We can say "Peace on Earth." We can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
~ Betty Shabazz
Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?
~ Marcus Aurelius
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
~ Francis Bacon
It's quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person- beguiled, enchanted.
~ Mary Chase
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
~ Johann von Goethe
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.
~ Vachel Lindsay
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
~ Carl Rogers
There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
~ JeanJacques Rousseau
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
~ George Sand
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
~ Bible
The old order changeth, yielding place to new.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Everything changes but change.
~ Israel Zangwill
If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into a mess.
~ Ezra Pound
The wildest colts make the best horses.
~ Plutarch