Quotes on Change

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.