Ten Quotes on Change

The bottomline in the ongoing political drama in the Philippines is the increasingly impatient clamor for leadership change and moral transformation. In America, change is also the winning battlecry of Barack Obama. Actually, in many aspects of life in many parts around the world, the mantra is change. This is why I chose it as my theme in this post today. See if you can learn an additional lesson or two about CHANGE in the following quotes:

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. -Alan Cohen

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If you want to make enemies, try to change something. -Woodrow Wilson

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. -Abraham Lincoln

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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. -Alfred North Whitehead

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. -Harold Wilson

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. -Anatole France

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Change always comes bearing gifts. -Price Pritchett

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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. -William Blake

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The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. -Jawaharlal Nehru

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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. -Ellen Glasgow

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