Change Quotes

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”

William Shakespeare

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

William Shakespeare

“To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.”

John Milton

“Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”

Alexander Pope

“A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.”

Francis Bacon

“Custom is the principal magistrate of man's life.”

Francis Bacon

“We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.”

Michel de Montaigne

“Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.”

Blaise Pascal

“The old falls, times change, and new life blossoms from the ruins.”

Friedrich Schiller

“Without contraries is no progression.”

William Blake

“Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

William Wordsworth

“Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, stains the white radiance of Eternity.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“That men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.”

Henry David Thoreau

“New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth.”

James Russell Lowell

“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.”

John Stuart Mill

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Charles Darwin

“This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.”

Rabindranath Tagore

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

Rabindranath Tagore

“Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.”

G. K. Chesterton