Creating Change Quotes

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank not as a prophet but as an unteachable brat well birched and none the wiser.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing. When we have made it the next wish is to change again.

When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.

Influence is independent of numbers. Influencing positive change in one person is still influence.

The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

After you've done a thing the same way for two years look it over carefully. After five years look at it with suspicion. And after ten years throw it away and start all over.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.

If you have no will to change it you have no right to criticize it.

Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

When patterns are broken new worlds emerge.

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

This Mouse must give up one of his Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow.

Compromise if not the spice of life is its solidity.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road turn back.

Duration is not a test of true or false.

It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

Lose yourself wholly and the more you lose the more you will find.

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers we outgrow acquaintances libraries principles etc. at times before they're worn out and times-and this is the worst of all-before we have new ones.

It is best to learn as we go not go as we have learned.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future.

Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.

If you want to stand out don't be different be outstanding.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.

To change and to improve are two different things.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.

Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.

Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.

It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.