Quotes on Change

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

This moment - the one you're experiencing right now - is the culmination of all the moments you have experienced in the past. This moment is as it is because the entire universe is as it is.

Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

All is change; all yields its place and goes.

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never have to worry.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single thing that doesn't require a complete remake. There are two ways of looking at that. One is: Oh my gosh, what a big burden. The other way, which I prefer, is: What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.