Change

“A house divided against itself cannot stand”

“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action”

“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation”

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative”

“All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs”

“Be water, my friend”

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy”

“Books will soon be obsolete in the schools”

“Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation can never effect a reform”

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

“Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change”

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for”

“Custom is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress”

“Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”

“Every moment is a fresh beginning”

“Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time”

“Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases”

“From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved”

“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time”

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times”

“How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly”

“I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was man”

“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space”

“I very frequently get the question: What's going to change in the next 10 years? I almost never get the question: What's not going to change in the next 10 years?”

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress”

“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving”

“Loss is nothing else than change. But the universal nature delights in change”

“Make war a mere contest of machines without men and without loss of life”

“Men have become the tools of their tools”

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

“Never say of anything, I have lost it; but, I have restored it”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced”

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change”

“Now is the winter of our discontent”

“Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it”

“Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them”

“People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten”

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage”

“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything”

“Software is eating the world”

“Strive manfully; custom is overcome by custom”

“Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it”

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what people fear most”

“The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return”

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

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed”

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

“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom”

“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse”

“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved”

“There Is No Greater Mistake than To Try To Leap an Abyss in Two Jumps”

“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself”

“Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive”

“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often”

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by”

“We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek”

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again”

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves”