Quotations on Change
All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
-Ellen Glasgow
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
-Charles F. Kettering
Things do not change, we do.
-Henry David Thoreau
Change is inevitable. To resist it is to invite disappointment and defeat. When we accept change - and use it to our advantage - change becomes an ally rather than an adversary.
-Criswell Freeman
The only people who don't change their minds are incompetent or dead.
-Everett Dirksen
You never step in the same river twice.
-Pocahontas
People change and forget to tell each other.
-Lillian Hellman
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
-Gelett Burgess
Nothing endures but change.
-Heraclitus
Men do change.
-John Steinbeck
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle that is taking place every instant.
-Henry David Thoreau
Change is inevitable except from vending machines.
-Anonymous
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.
-Andy Warhol
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
-E. F. Schumacher
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.
-William Somerset Maugham
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
-George Santayana

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