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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
JBJacob Braude
When you’re through changing, you’re through.
Bruce Fairchild Barton1886–1967
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe love nothing so much as to change. The Universe is change.
Marcus Aurelius121–180
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.
Bill Gatesborn 1955
- Time
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been ‘great changes.’
Marcel Proust1871–1922
Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859National Character of Americans—first impressions (1831) Oeuvres complètes, vol. VIII, p. 233.
- America
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 2 : Transformed nonconformist
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #124
Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention (August 23, 1956)
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx1818–1883“Theses on Feuerbach” (1845), Thesis 11, Marx Engels Selected Works,(MESW), Volume I, p. 15
- Philosophy
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), p. 19
- Nature
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 Maugham1874–1965The Summing Up (1938), p. 306
- Love
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Ends and Means (1937), Ch. 1, p. 9 [2012 reprint]
- Technology
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France1844–1924The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), Pt. II, ch. 4