11,582 Quotes About Change

The way I solved the problems in my past, today the same solutions may not work because problems are not same. And I know you are also not the same. Then why would you think I am the same?

They see change as dangerous and will exile anyone who asks for it. This is a perverted idea of family loyalty.

I wept...for how deeply afraid I was that my life would never truly change or, worse, that true change would ask more of me than I could give.

He told me it didn't really matter if it was true, it was what the story MEANT that was so important.

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds and its very self.(Das menschliche Wesen, leichtfertig in seinem Grund, von der Natur des auffliegenden Staubes, verträgt keine Fesselung; fesselt es sich selbst, wird es bald wahnsinnig an den Fesseln zu rütteln anfangen und Mauer, Kette und sich selbst in alle Himmelsrichtungen zerreißen.)

but no, Bold has all the ardour and all the self-assurance of a Danton, and hurls his anathemas against time-honoured practices with the violence of a French Jacobin.

This is the consequence of the clash of old and new. We must prepare our hearts, all of us. No matter which side wins, we will all be heartbroken.

Without a man being converted, how can he change his behaviour?

Wouldn’t you want future generations to be watching a movie about what you did at this critical juncture in human history? Every generation has the chance to produce heroes. There is no law preventing you from being one of them. Too many people think that heroism is something other people do. No, it’s your responsibility.