Quotations About Change

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.

Whoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season. ~ Heraclitus/Heraklietos of Ephesos


There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask, "What happened?" ~ Casey Stengel


Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. ~ W.H. Murray, The Story of Everest


You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi


The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. ~ Marilyn Ferguson


It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ~Charles Darwin


The best way to predict the future is to create it. ~ Peter Drucker


The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. ~ John Welwood

Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. ~ Caroline Schoeder

It's best to make your peace with change, before it makes pieces of you. With the beginning of a great & compassionate love, comes the growth of one's heart, and with that, a profound inner change. The way to opening the mind is often first through the heart. And once is the mind & heart are open, so many things become possible. ~ Corey Irwin


To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~Henri Bergson


We know only two things about the future: It cannot be known, and it will be different from what exists now and from what we now expect. ~ Peter Drucker


The mind thinks That any change Is painful. The heart feels That any change Is powerful. ~ Sri Chinmoy


The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. ~ I. Krishnamurti


If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. ~ Maya Angelou


You want to change the world. The world wants to change you. You and the world Should stop thinking of changing each other. Just allow a third Person To do the needful. You know who I mean: God the only Doer. ~ Sri Chinmoy


We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~ Muriel Chen


Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~ African proverb


Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson


Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant. ~ Stephen Sigmund

Quotes About Heroism

Hero - Mariah Carey (Cats Video)


A hero is a man who does what he can. ~ Romain Rolland


A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ~Plato


It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. ~ Louis Pasteur


By hero, we tend to mean a heightened man who, more than other men, possesses qualities of courage, loyalty, resourcefulness, charisma, above all, selflessness. He is an example of right behavior; the sort of man who risks his life to protect his society's values, sacrificing his personal needs for those of the community. ~ Paul Zweig


A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. ~ Novalis


A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


You cannot be a hero without being a coward. ~ George Bernard Shaw


The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ~ Umberto Eco


The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values. ~ Andrew Bernstein


Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. ~Benjamin Disraeli


The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. ~ Eugene Debs


Self-trust is the essence of heroism. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. ~ Charles Horton Cooley


The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. ~ Henry Ward Beecher



The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. ~ Miguel de Unamuno



Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious con. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel


Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ~ Thomas Merton


Hero worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson