Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Be the change you want to see in the world.

We must become the change we want to see.

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.

One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it and look who succeeded most in it. Yet these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

The suffering of either sex -- of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult -- this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstrap they would flock to it.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Question: Is it better to abide by the rules until they're changed or help speed the change by breaking them?

Show respect for age. Drink good Scotch for a change.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.

If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject

Good day for a change of scene. Repaper the bedroom wall.

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely? change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

If a guy really loves a girl, the only thing he wants to change is... the girl's last name.

The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. (On dismissing 12,000 striking air traffic controllers)

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

The moment of change is the only poem.

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed.

The tricky part of the human journey is to transform ourselves continually as our life directions change.

We can only change the world by changing men.

Give thought to your reputation. Consider changing name and moving to a new town.

On the breakup of Harrison Ford's first marriage It wasn't because he became a star. In all relationships there are changes and the point is both partners have to change together.

History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo Would that change what I had for breakfast

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.