Quotes on Change

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.

Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

All things change, nothing perishes.

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

Change is not made without inconvenience.

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

We must become the change we want to see.

Your way begins at the other side._x000D_ _x000D_ Become the sky._x000D_ _x000D_ Take an axe to the prison wall._x000D_ _x000D_ Escape._x000D_ _x000D_ Walk out like someone suddenly born into color._x000D_ _x000D_ Do it now.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.