Quotes about Transformation
A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dark yesterday can be transformed into bright tomorrow.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
How are you, Watson?" said he, cordially. "I should never have known you under that moustache
— Arthur Conan Doyle
For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.
— Audre Lorde
The subject of revolution is ourselves, is our lives.
— Audre Lorde
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
— Audre Lorde
He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made into rafters. He looked at a streak of rust on the stone and thought of iron ore under the ground. To be melted and to emerge as girders against the sky. These rocks, he thought, are waiting for me; waiting for the drill, the dynamite and my voice; waiting to be split, ripped, pounded, reborn; waiting for the shape my hands will give them.
— Ayn Rand
Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.
— St. Jerome
Maybe he'll be different from who he was and always is.
— Stephen Colbert
A tendency that's run through your family for generations can stop with you. You're a transition person — a link between past and future. And your own change can affect many, many lives downstream.
— Stephen Covey
I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.
— Stephen Covey
We have seen in this chapter how, in less than half a century, man's view of the universe, formed over millennia, has been transformed.
— Stephen Hawking