They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
—Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874–1956) American Business Executive
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it.
—Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–72) Italian Patriot, Political Leader
When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
—Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it—when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.
—Salman Rushdie (b.1947) Indian-born British Novelist
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
—Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) American Art Critic, Historian
In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907) English Poet, Ascetic
My opinion is a view I hold until … well, until I find something that changes it.
—Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) Italian Dramatist, Novelist, Short Story Writer
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
—Abraham Maslow (1908–70) American Psychologist, Academic, Humanist
Irreverence ran on both sides of our family… my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.
—Richard Branson (b.1950) British Entrepreneur
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
—John Ciardi (1916–86) American Poet, Teacher, Etymologist, Translator
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
—Jesse Jackson (b.1941) American Civil Rights Leader, Minister
The lapse of ages changes all things—time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing “about, around, and underneath” man, except man himself.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
We are reformers in spring and summer, in autumn and winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservatives at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.
—Robert Kiyosaki (b.1947) American Businessperson, Author, Motivational Speaker
Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.
—Seth Godin (b.1960) American Entrepreneur
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
—H. G. Wells (1866–1946) English Novelist, Historian, Social Thinker
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
—Robert F. Kennedy (1925–68) American Politician, Lawyer
Goody-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973) Irish Novelist, Short-story Writer
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
—W. Edwards Deming (1900–93) American Engineer, Statistician
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Irish Satirist
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
—Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) French Philosopher, Writer, Feminist
There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.
—Tennessee Williams (1911–83) American Playwright
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L. P. Hartley (1895–1972) British Writer, Critic
We change, whether we like it or not.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
—Darren Hardy (b.1971) American Author
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves.
—Andre Gide (1869–1951) French Novelist
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