“We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.”
“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.”
“The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.”
“Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.”
“That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.”
“There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''”
“The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.”
“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.”
“All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.”
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
“Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.”
“Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.”
“The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.”
“As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.”
“Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.”
“Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.”
“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”
“Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.”
“Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.”
“The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.”
“The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.”
“If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.”
“The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!”
“The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.”
“In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.”
“For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.”
“Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”