Quotes about Change
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
— Oscar Wilde
It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.
— Jim Rohn
A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
— Philip Yancey
Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.
— JM Coetzee
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.
— Bruce Lee
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
— Audre Lorde
Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
— Robert Frost
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
— Barack Obama
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
— Mark Twain