Quotes about Change

What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.