Quotes on Change

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.

How do we expect change to occur if we are not willing to put on the whole armor of God and fight injustice wherever it raises its ugly head?

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

Fraud really thrives in moments of great social change and transition. We're in the midst of a technological revolution. That gives con artists huge opportunities. People lose their frame of reference for what can and can't be real.

Living through times of rapid change can be exhilarating, but it also can be very difficult.

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians accountable, we contribute to harm.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with 'anti-answers' such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.

Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they couldn't do a problem finally began to study why not. They then turned it around the other way and said, "But of course, this is what it is" and got an important result.