Change & Transformation: Change Quotes

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"Fashion is made to become unfashionable"

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

"All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

John Kenneth Galbraith

"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

William Ralph Inge

"Reform, that we may preserve"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

Thomas B. Macaulay

"Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward"

Ellen Glasgow, Novelist

Ellen Glasgow

"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant"

Joan Didion, Author

"In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation"

Edwin Way Teale, Writer

"Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream"

Debby Boone, Actress

"When you talk about changing the rules, that takes time, and it always involves more than just a committee"

Al Edwards, Politician

"Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth, when I was growing up, is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"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"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"He not busy being born is busy dying"

Bob Dylan, Musician

Bob Dylan

"There are three constants in life: change, choice and principles"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

Stephen Covey

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life"

Muhammad Ali, Athlete

"In England, we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"I think I've changed a lot as a person"

Peter Steele, Musician

Peter Steele

"Life is a lively process of becoming"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

Douglas MacArthur

"For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

Wangari Maathai

"I'm not a politician. I am just a simple person who came to break the system"

Volodymyr Zelensky, President

Volodymyr Zelensky

"Nothing endures but change"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

Heraclitus

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

Gloria Steinem

"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

Bertolt Brecht

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

Abraham Maslow

"Growth is a painful process"

Wilma Mankiller, Statesman

Wilma Mankiller

"I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen"

Lisa Bonet, Actress

Lisa Bonet

"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action"

Emma Goldman, Activist

Emma Goldman

"Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change"

Herodotus, Historian

Herodotus

"Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them"

John Updike, Novelist

John Updike

"Everybody grows but me"

Queen Victoria, Royalty

Queen Victoria

"Reform is China's second revolution"

Deng Xiaoping, Leader

Deng Xiaoping

"Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils, requiring new remedies"

William Howard Taft, President

"It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point, and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking"

Terry Riley, Composer

Terry Riley

"Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself"

Natalie Wood, Actress

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