Change Quotes

“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“When you are through changing, you are through.”

— Bruce Barton

“The future is unwritten.”

— Joe Strummer

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

— Albert Einstein

“Don't go through life, grow through life.”

— Eric Butterworth

“My sun sets to rise again.”

— Robert Browning

“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”

— Jonas Salk

“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”

— Albert Einstein

“In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

— John Steinbeck

“Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”

— Emily Brontë

“It was the law of the sea, they said: civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

— Winston Churchill

“Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.”

— Jane Austen

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

— Winston Churchill

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”

— Eugene O'Neill

“Sometimes the only realists are the dreamers.”

— Paul Wellstone

“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”

— Winston Churchill

“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”

— Rumi

“It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can get yourself back.”

— Mick Jagger

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting, but in a tract of time wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.”

— Thomas Hobbes

“It is well that war is so terrible; we should grow too fond of it.”

— Robert E. Lee

“The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed.”

— Eminem

“Whatever good things we build end up building us.”

— Jim Rohn

“A revolution is not a bed of roses.”

— Fidel Castro

“I had a really good childhood up until I was nine. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me.”

— Kurt Cobain

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

— Muhammad Ali

“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”

— Tom Stoppard

“Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.”

— Bill Gates

“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic of different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”

— Jimmy Carter

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe; you have to make it fall.”

— Che Guevara

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”

— Havelock Ellis

“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”

— Victor Hugo

“It is a mistake to look too far ahead; only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”

— Winston Churchill

“A symphony must be like the world; it must contain everything.”

— Gustav Mahler

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

— Winston Churchill

“Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination; both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.”

— Winston Churchill

“There's nothing wrong with anger, provided you use it constructively.”

— Wayne Dyer

“Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.”

— Mattie Stepanek

“For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier. I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.”

— Steven Wright

“These are not dark days; these are great days—the greatest days our country has ever lived.”

— Winston Churchill

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.'”

— Lewis Carroll

“Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.”

— Keanu Reeves

“All things are difficult before they are easy.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“The best way out is always through.”

— Robert Frost

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”

— Heraclitus

“A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.”

— Steven Wright

“They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.”

— Samuel de Champlain

“The most dangerous food is wedding cake.”

— James Thurber

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

— Winston Churchill

“Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.”

— Vladimir Lenin

“Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.”

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

— Tony Robbins

“Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.”

— George Washington

“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”

— Epicurus

“Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.”

— Homer

“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”

— Florence Nightingale

“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”

— Hippocrates

“Don't find fault, find a remedy.”

— Henry Ford

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”

— Winston Churchill

“An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.”

— Isaac Newton

“The past is the beginning of the beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”

— H.G. Wells

“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.”

— Golda Meir

“Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity, and reunification.”

— Kim Jong Il

“I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”

— Carl Sandburg

“Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

— Anaïs Nin

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”

— Coco Chanel

“Things of this world are in so constant a flux that nothing remains long in the same state.”

— John Locke

“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

— Michael Jordan

“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next.”

— Gilda Radner

“You always say, 'I'll quit when I start to slide,' and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.”

— Sugar Ray Robinson

“A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.”

— Vladimir Lenin

“The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.”

— Bill Gates

“In my imagination, yes, I remember when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house, but now it's real.”

— Gustavo Dudamel

“What progress we are making; in the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.”

— Steve Martin

“I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.”

— Mick Jagger

“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration caricatures; it is the very nature of fantasy and fable.”

— Walt Disney

“The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.”

— Horace

“Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”

— Scott Adams

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

— Bruce Lee

“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”

— Ann Landers

“One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.”

— Gertrude Stein

“It was like being in the eye of a hurricane; you'd wake up in a concert and think, 'Wow, how did I get here?'”

— John Lennon

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

— Coco Chanel

“The great growling engine of change – technology.”

— Alvin Toffler

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”

— Paul Gauguin

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

— Albert Einstein

“Vision without action is merely a dream; action without vision just passes the time; vision with action can change the world.”

— Joel A. Barker

“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”

— Alexander Pope

“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”

— William James

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”

— Golda Meir

“Sports are a microcosm of society.”

— Billie Jean King

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”

— Lao Tzu

“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”

— Arthur Wellesley

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”

— Robert Browning

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

— Jimmy Dean

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.”

— Woody Allen

“Let him that would move the world first move himself.”

— Socrates

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”

— Lao Tzu

“Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.”

— Sammy Hagar

“Old age is like a shipwreck.”

— Charles de Gaulle

“Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”

— Truman Capote

“Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.”

— William Ralph Inge

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

— Oscar Wilde

“If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is not to be reached by search or trail.”

— Heraclitus

“We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.”

— Livy

“Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

— John F. Kennedy

“War is not an adventure; it is a disease. It is like typhus.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“You cannot step into the same river twice.”

— Heraclitus

“Don't find fault, find a remedy.”

— Henry Ford

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

— Stanislaw Lec

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

— John Wooden

“Life comes from the earth, and life returns to the earth.”

— Zhuangzi

“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Music can change the world because it can change people.”

— Bono

“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”

— Ronald Reagan

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”

— Hannah Arendt

“Houses are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.”

— Francis Bacon

“I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.”

— Boy George

“What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?”

— Virgil

“The trick is growing up without growing old.”

— Casey Stengel

“The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.”

— Mike Murdock

“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasurable.”

— Louis Kahn

“It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place; it's when we start spilling our sweat and not our blood.”

— David Hume

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

— Mother Teresa

“Water is the driving force of all nature.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“If you have to forecast, forecast often.”

— Edgar R. Fiedler

“Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.”

— Arthur Wellesley

“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”

— Michael Jordan

“To begin, begin.”

— William Wordsworth

“Life is a gamble at terrible odds. If it was a bet, you wouldn't take it.”

— Tom Stoppard

“Thank you, next.”

— Ariana Grande

“A leopard does not change his spots or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

“Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

— Bruce Lee

“These are the times that try men's souls.”

— Thomas Paine

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”

— Thomas A. Edison

“I like progress, but I hate change.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

— E.B. White

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

— Isaac Newton

“I put up my thumb, and it blotted out the planet Earth.”

— Neil Armstrong

“Each new situation requires a new architecture.”

— Jean Nouvel

“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.”

— Martin Luther

“I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.”

— Douglas Adams

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in and so easy to build too.”

— Henrik Ibsen

“Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling of the fresh life within that withers and bursts the husk.”

— George MacDonald

“Life is God's novel. Let him write it.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”

— John D. Rockefeller

“The difficult is that which can be done immediately; the impossible is that which takes a little longer.”

— George Santayana

“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”

— Martin Heidegger

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”

— Winston Churchill

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“First, ask yourself what is the worst that can happen. Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”

— Dale Carnegie

“I look forward to the future and going into the studio to make new music.”

— Diana Ross

“Money is always there, but the pockets change. It is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.”

— Scott Adams

“If we are to better the future, we must disturb the present.”

— Catherine Booth

“Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.”

— Henry Kissinger

“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”

— Virginia Woolf

“And yet to every bad there is a worse.”

— Thomas Hardy

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”

— William James

“It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.”

— Montesquieu

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The die is cast.”

— Julius Caesar

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”

— Rumi

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

— Albus Dumbledore

“My argument is that war makes rattling good history, but peace is poor reading.”

— Thomas Hardy

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“After the final no there comes a yes, and on that yes the future of the world hangs.”

— Wallace Stevens

“You are remembered for the rules you break.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.”

— Yogi Berra

“Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.”

— Mao Zedong

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

— Carl Jung

“Facing it, always facing it—that's the way to get through. Face it.”

— Joseph Conrad

“A man is a god in ruins; when men are innocent, life shall be longer and shall pass into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

— George Eliot

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”

— John W. Gardner

“As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.”

— Francesca Annis

“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.”

— Steve Jobs

“When you cease to dream, you cease to live.”

— Malcolm Forbes

“Environmental pollution is an incurable disease; it can only be prevented.”

— Barry Commoner

“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long shot.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.”

— Robert E. Lee

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

— Blaise Pascal

“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them, men.”

— Theodor Adorno

“The major value in life is not what you get; the major value in life is what you become.”

— Jim Rohn

“Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.”

— Virgil

“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”

— Peter Drucker

“Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.”

— Elon Musk

“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

— Anaïs Nin

“Boredom is the root of all evil—the despairing refusal to be oneself.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.”

— Billy Corgan

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude.”

— Emily Dickinson

“I demolish my bridges behind me—then there is no choice but forward.”

— Fridtjof Nansen

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

— Lao Tzu

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”

— Alex Haley

“The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.”

— George Eliot

“We are not makers of history; we are made by history.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.”

— Denis Waitley

“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.”

— Blaise Pascal

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

— John W. Gardner

“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men, however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”

— Buddha

“There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

— Elon Musk

“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”

— J.K. Rowling

“In art and dream, may you proceed with abandon. In life, may you proceed with balance and stealth.”

— Patti Smith

“Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.”

— Abdul Kalam

“Man is defined as a human being, and a woman as a female. Whenever she behaves as a human being, she is said to imitate the male.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“So like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.”

— Gaston Bachelard

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”

— Nido Qubein

“To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.”

— James Jeans

“Have a bias toward action — let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”

— Indira Gandhi

“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

— Michael Jordan

“Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed—give me the tightrope.”

— Edith Wharton

“It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Every person is a god in embryo, its only desire is to be born.”

— Deepak Chopra

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

— Anne Frank

“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

— Robert Frost

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”

— Roger Miller

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it; and if I were a bird, I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”

— George Eliot

“Only entropy comes easy.”

— Anton Chekhov

“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.”

— Carl Rogers

“The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature.”

— Kim Jong-un

“Ill habits gather unseen degrees, like brooks that make rivers, rivers run to seas.”

— John Dryden

“The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth.”

— Chief Seattle

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

— Winston Churchill

“We are trying to construct a more inclusive society; we are going to make a country in which no one is left out.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.”

— Pliny the Elder

“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”

— Edward Abbey

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”

— James A. Michener

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

— Alan Kay

“When the oak is felled, the whole forest echoes with it; fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”

— Harold Wilson

“The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.”

— Lao Tzu

“Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up anyway.”

— Walt Disney

“The future is always beginning now.”

— Mark Strand

“Everything starts from a dot.”

— Wassily Kandinsky

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

— Stephen Hawking

“I did not direct my life; I didn't design it; I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.”

— B.F. Skinner

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”

— Aristotle Onassis

“To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

— Henri Bergson

“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”

— Francis Bacon

“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”

— Thomas Hardy

“My business is to prevent the future.”

— Ray Bradbury

“God is at home. It's we who have gone out for a walk.”

— Meister Eckhart

“It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.”

— Mark Twain

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

— e.e. cummings

“We are tied to the ocean, and when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came.”

— John F. Kennedy

“Everything has positive and negative consequences.”

— Farrah Fawcett

“There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

— John Ruskin

“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.”

— Stewart Brand

“People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.”

— James A. Baldwin

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

— John Lennon

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”

— George Orwell

“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature.”

— Charles Darwin

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

— Muhammad Ali

“Fate will find a way.”

— Virgil

“The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.”

— Meister Eckhart

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men; true nobility lies in being superior to your former self.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Finally, we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the universe.”

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.”

— Charles de Gaulle

“He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.”

— Lech Wałęsa

“There's a snake lurking in the grass.”

— Virgil

“Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I; But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.”

— Christina Rossetti

“The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.”

— Thomas Merton

“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.”

— Michael Jordan

“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“At any street corner, the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”

— Albert Camus

“Nothing endures but change.”

— Heraclitus

“Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.”

— Elon Musk

“There are no second acts in American lives.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“When the rose and the cross are united, the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends; then we wake from history and enter eternity.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”

— Keanu Reeves

“To reach a port we must sail, sail not tie at anchor, sail not drift.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Map out your future, but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

“The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.”

— Michelangelo

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

— Helen Keller

“The greatest of all inventors is accident.”

— Mark Twain

“The more things change, the more they are the same.”

— Alphonse Karr

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

— Virginia Woolf

“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”

— Charles Revson

“No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”

— Keri Russell

“These are the souls changes. I don't believe in ageing; I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun; hence my optimism.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”

— John Maynard Keynes

“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired so long as we can see far enough.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.”

— Francis Bacon

“Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.”

— Richard Wagner

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Necessity is the mother of invention.”

— Plato

“Insanity runs in my family; it practically gallops.”

— Cary Grant

“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The future is today.”

— William Osler

“Fear is excitement without breath.”

— Robert Heller

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.”

— Scott Adams

“A flower falls, even though we love it, and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.”

— Dogen

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”

— Francis Bacon

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

— John Steinbeck

“I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road.”

— Stephen Hawking

“If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.”

— Emil Zatopek

“Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.”

— Don Henley

“I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.”

— Mitch Hedberg

“Men are like wine; some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”

— Pope John XXIII

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

— Victor Hugo

“Adventure is worthwhile.”

— Aesop

“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years unless we spread into space.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Extremes meet, as the whiting said, with its tail in its mouth.”

— Thomas Hood

“Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resists.”

— Plutarch

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”

— Albert Camus

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”

— Horace

“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.”

— John Lennon

“We live in a disposable society; it's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name; we call it recycling.”

— Neil Labute

“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”

— Victor Hugo

“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”

— Washington Irving

“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”

— John Dryden

“By letting it go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.”

— Lao Tzu

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu

“Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.”

— Alvin Toffler

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Life is a lively process of becoming.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”

— Jack Kerouac

“France has lost the battle, but she has not lost the war.”

— Charles de Gaulle

“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”

— Helen Keller

“Nothing recedes like progress.”

— E. E. Cummings

“There are three constants in life: change, choice, and principles.”

— Stephen Covey

“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”

— George Santayana

“The past is not dead; it is living in us and will be alive in the future, which we are now helping to make.”

— William Morris

“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”

— Marquis de Sade

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”

— Meryl Streep

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

— Walt Disney

“He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.”

— David Lloyd George

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

— Edward Abbey

“It's like déjà vu all over again.”

— Yogi Berra

“I was a veteran before I was a teenager.”

— Michael Jackson

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”

— Jacques-Yves Cousteau

“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”

— Max Frisch

“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Christians are made, not born.”

— Tertullian

“Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.”

— Emile Durkheim

“If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours; nature did it.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one, so I got a cake.”

— Mitch Hedberg

“It ain't over till it's over.”

— Yogi Berra

“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.”

— Meister Eckhart

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

— Edmund Hillary

“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”

— Hippocrates

“Violence is man re-creating himself.”

— Frantz Fanon

“Odysseus, the man of many ways, who was driven far from his home.'”

— Homer

“Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

— William James

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

— Albert Einstein

“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”

— Paul Valéry

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

— André Gide

“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

— Albert Einstein

“Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

“There is no doubt that life is given us not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome, to be got over.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

— Albert Camus

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

— Henry Ford

“Men do not shape destiny; destiny produces the man for the hour.”

— Fidel Castro

“But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.”

— Lewis Carroll

“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”

— Catherine the Great

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

— Frederick Douglass

“A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.”

— Daniel Webster

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”

— Walt Whitman

“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun.”

— George Orwell

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

— Carl Sagan

“In fair weather prepare for foul.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“I slept with Faith and found a corpse in my arms; on awakening, I drank and danced all night with Doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.”

— Aleister Crowley

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward.”

— Draco Malfoy

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”

— Albert Camus

“When the war of the giants is over, the wars of the pygmies will begin.”

— Winston Churchill

“The speed of light does not merely transform the world; it becomes the world.”

— Paul Virilio

“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”

— Gloria Steinem

“Order doesn't come by itself.”

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.”

— Doug Coupland

“I wouldn't change a single thing because one change alters every moment that follows it.”

— Sidney Poitier

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.”

— Golda Meir

“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”

— Louis Armstrong

“That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

— Neil Armstrong

“Think globally, act locally.”

— Paul McCartney

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”

— William James

“The way up and the way down are one and the same.”

— Heraclitus

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

— Charles Dickens

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.”

— Saint Augustine

“To destroy is always the first step in any creation.”

— e.e. cummings

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”

— Winston Churchill

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

— Margaret Mead

“Custom is the great guide to human life.”

— David Hume

“The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.”

— Tertullian

“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“Water is the driving force of all nature.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

— William Shakespeare

“Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.”

— Tommy Douglas

“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Expect the best. Plan for the worst. Prepare to be surprised.”

— Denis Waitley

“There are some remedies worse than the disease.”

— Publilius Syrus

“The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.”

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

— William Blake

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”

— H.G. Wells

“Inactivity is death.”

— Benito Mussolini

“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”

— Betty Friedan

“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”

— Nathaniel Branden

“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“I took a fear of flying class and I always missed the class because I was always flying.”

— Sara Blakely

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

— John F. Kennedy

“The wildest colts make the best horses.”

— Plutarch

“We are not makers of history; we are made by history.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“It is sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.”

— Brigitte Bardot

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“Anger is a short madness.”

— Horace

“I think I have a dualistic nature.”

— Bob Dylan

“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”

— Henry J. Kaiser

“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.”

— Alexander Fleming

“Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.”

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

“I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.”

— Michael Jordan

“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways; he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

— Virginia Woolf

“You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.”

— Jim Bouton

“Pessimism of the spirit, optimism of the will.”

— Antonio Gramsci

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”

— Mary Shelley

“If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.”

— Simon Sinek

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

— Arthur Ashe

“For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.”

— Tony Robbins

“I believe in being an innovator.”

— Walt Disney

“Life is not an exact science; it is an art.”

— Samuel Butler

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”

— Nelson Mandela

“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”

— James Russell Lowell

“To every action, there is always opposed an equal reaction.”

— Isaac Newton

“Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”

— Fred Hoyle

“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Better is the enemy of good.”

— Voltaire

“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”

— Samuel Butler

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

— Confucius

“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”

— Tom Stoppard

“I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.”

— Christopher Columbus

“Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.”

— Zig Ziglar

“Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul, and that's resignation.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”

— Paul Gauguin

“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“It's easier to go down a hill than up it, but the view is much better at the top.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.”

— Tom Stoppard

“We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.”

— Chief Joseph

“Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth and without light nothing flowers.”

— May Sarton

“The future ain't what it used to be.”

— Yogi Berra

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

— Winston Churchill

“If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Chaos was the law of nature; order was the dream of man.”

— Henry Adams

“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”

— Hans Selye

“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”

— Timothy Leary

“I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.”

— David Livingstone

“Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.”

— Yogi Berra

“What goes up must come down.”

— Isaac Newton

“We become what we do.”

— Chiang Kai-shek

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”

— Robert H. Schuller

“In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”

— Mark Twain

“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.”

— Clint Eastwood

“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous. You get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”

— Tony Robbins

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

— Confucius

“The time for action is now; it's never too late to do something.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

— E. B. White

“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“I shall not grow conservative with age.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”

— Karl Marx

“Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time. What we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.”

— Sydney J. Harris

“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”

— Paul Theroux

“I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.”

— George Byron

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”

— Aristotle

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

— Winston Churchill

“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder.”

— William Slim

“It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on; it takes a lot of strength to let go.”

— J.C. Watts

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself; the longest way round is the shortest way home.”

— James Joyce

“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”

— Lin Yutang

“Change before you have to.”

— Jack Welch

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Finds progress: man's distinctive mark alone, not God's and not the beasts. God is; they are; man partly is and wholly hopes to be.”

— Robert Browning

“At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look at forty-five; they are caves in which we hide.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.”

— Jeremy Bentham

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Culture is the cry of men in face of their destiny.”

— Albert Camus

“The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.”

— Rupert Murdoch

“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”

— Stephen Covey

“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

— William Shakespeare

“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”

— Edmund Burke

“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”

— Alan Turing

“Sometimes history needs a push.”

— Vladimir Lenin

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.”

— Hernan Cortes

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

— Karl Marx

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.”

— Mao Zedong

“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

— Lee Iacocca

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”

— George Eliot

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

— Yogi Berra

“Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend.”

— Mao Zedong

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

— Edward de Bono

“Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“We failed, but in the good providence of God, apparent failure often proves a blessing.”

— Robert E. Lee

“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”

— Pope John Paul II

“Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.”

— Anton Chekhov

“Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.”

— Horace

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”

— Winston Churchill

“Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”

— Charles Kettering

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Miracles happen everyday. Change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

“Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.”

— Anton Chekhov

“There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.”

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“When the legends die, the dreams end. There is no more greatness.”

— Tecumseh

“I shall create a new world for myself.”

— Frédéric Chopin

“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”

— Jim Rohn

“I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.”

— David Livingstone

“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”

— Edward de Bono

“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

— Pablo Neruda

“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”

— Augustus

“The only paradise is paradise lost.”

— Marcel Proust

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part; just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.”

— Pierre de Coubertin

“Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.”

— Albert Einstein

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

— Khalil Gibran

“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more—to dream all the time.”

— Marcel Proust

“If life were predictable, it would cease to be life and be without flavor.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.”

— Andrew Wyeth

“If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.”

— Yogi Berra

“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.”

— Marc Andreessen

“The best way out is always through.”

— Robert Frost

“For an introvert, his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.”

— Quentin Crisp

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Actors are agents of change; a film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.”

— Alan Rickman

“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

— Confucius

“Change alone is unchanging.”

— Heraclitus

“From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.”

— Chief Joseph

“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.”

— Samuel Johnson

“When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.”

— Sylvester Stallone

“A lot of movies are about life. Mine are like a slice of cake.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

“A house is a machine for living in.”

— Le Corbusier

“Gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.”

— George Santayana

“Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

— John F. Kennedy

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

— Winston Churchill

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”

— Ellen Glasgow

“Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.”

— Aldous Huxley

“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out?”

— Alfred Hitchcock

“Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.”

— Guglielmo Marconi

“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”

— Aeschylus

“The essence of the way is detachment.”

— Bodhidharma

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”

— Amelia Earhart

“Keep close to nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

— John Muir

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”

— Mae West

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future or a different past.”

— Richard Bach

“The future has already arrived — it's just not evenly distributed yet.”

— William Gibson

“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.”

— Mason Cooley

“The feeling remains that God is on the journey too.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”

— Buddha

“There is a point at which methods devour themselves.”

— Frantz Fanon

“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.”

— Lao Tzu

“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.”

— Cyril Connolly

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.”

— J.K. Rowling

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”

— John Muir

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”

— Henry Rollins

“Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society.”

— Bill Gates

“listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go”

— e.e. cummings

“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”

— Yogi Berra

“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.”

— Alexis Carrel

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”

— Confucius

“In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

— Douglas Adams

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

— William Arthur Ward

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”

— Coco Chanel

“The best prophet of the future is the past.”

— Lord Byron

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

— Muhammad Ali

“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”

— Charles Dickens

“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”

— Carl Jung

“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.”

— Hyman Rickover

“You see things and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and I say, 'Why not?'”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.”

— Carol Burnett

“Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed, but socially constructed.”

— Judith Butler

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

— Albus Dumbledore

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

— Andy Warhol

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

— Oscar Wilde

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”

— Havelock Ellis

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”

— Bertrand Russell

“If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”

— Yogi Berra

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”

— H.G. Wells

“The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.”

— Dave Barry

“You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”

— Aristophanes

“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.”

— Herbert Hoover

“There is nothing permanent except change.”

— Heraclitus

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”

— James Russell Lowell

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.”

— Vaclav Havel

“Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?”

— Emile M. Cioran

“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”

— Lee Iacocca

“Some men see things as they are and say why; I dream of things that never were and say why not.”

— Robert Kennedy

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

— Barack Obama

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”

— John F. Kennedy

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous. You get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

— Gloria Steinem

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Less is only more where more is no good.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“He that fights and runs away may turn and fight another day; but he that is in battle slain will never rise to fight again.”

— Tacitus

“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace or peace an interlude during war.”

— Georges Clemenceau

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”

— Carol Burnett

“The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.”

— Ring Lardner

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

— William Arthur Ward

“The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.”

— Plato

“Keep close to nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

— John Muir

“Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”

— Ernest Shackleton

“Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.”

— Epictetus

“No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you, let it happen.”

— Jeremy Irons

“Everything is arranged so that it be this way; this is what is called culture.”

— Jacques Derrida

“Destiny has two ways of crushing us: by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”

— Henri-Frederic Amiel

“If we open a quarrel between the past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

— Winston Churchill

“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”

— Rumi

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

— Charles Dickens

“Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

— Tony Robbins

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

— Oscar Wilde

“If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“There are risks and costs to action, but they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.”

— John F. Kennedy

“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”

— Plutarch

“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”

— John Wooden

“My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost in the apartment somewhere.”

— Steven Wright

“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone, and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.”

— Paul Tillich

“Map out your future, but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

“Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.”

— William Cowper

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”

— Lao Tzu

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

— Albus Dumbledore

“The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.”

— Douglas Adams

“For sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.”

— Jean-Paul

“I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.”

— Bayard Rustin

“I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Get off your horse and drink your milk.”

— John Wayne

“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”

— Marie Curie

“It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad, and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.”

— Ernie Harwell

“Science arose from poetry when times change, the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons; neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.”

— Blaise Pascal

“I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.”

— Tadao Ando

“The past cannot be cured.”

— Elizabeth I

“The sun is new each day.”

— Heraclitus

“I have noticed that even people who claim that everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”

— Charles Baudelaire

“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”

— Peter Drucker

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

— Albert Einstein

“The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.”

— Anacharsis

“All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.”

— Cleopatra

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived. But if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

— Maya Angelou

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence as a dream.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“Only idiots refuse to change their minds.”

— Brigitte Bardot

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.”

— Murray Walker

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“It's a funny old world.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.”

— John Wooden

“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.”

— Yogi Berra

“Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.”

— Audre Lorde

“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

“There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not.”

— Robert Kennedy

“You can just never forget where you came from.”

— Giannis Antetokounmpo

“Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.”

— Aesop

“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.”

— Henry Miller

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go; I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”

— Albert Einstein

“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”

— Karl Marx

“The child is father of the man.”

— William Wordsworth

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”

— Mike Murdock

“Old age realizes the dreams of youth; look at Dean Swift: in his youth he built an asylum for the insane; in his old age he was himself an inmate.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately, it is the one thing that whatever you do, you cannot avoid.”

— Salvador Dali

“Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.”

— Mark Twain

“Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.”

— Satchel Paige

“This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

— Neil Armstrong

“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”

— Julius Caesar

“Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.”

— Ben Horowitz

“Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.”

— E. F. Schumacher

“No matter how far a person can go, the horizon is still way beyond you.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“I slept with Faith and found a corpse in my arms; on awakening I drank and danced all night with Doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.”

— Aleister Crowley

“Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”

— Buddha

“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”

— Walt Disney

“Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”

— Franz Kafka

“One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.”

— Oscar Wilde

“It is not what we get, but who we become, what we contribute that gives meaning to our lives.”

— Tony Robbins

“Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.”

— Georges Bataille

“Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.”

— Ovid

“As the twig is bent, the tree inclines.”

— Virgil

“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.”

— Jane Goodall

“Either war is obsolete or men are.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“Following the light of the sun, we left the old world.”

— Christopher Columbus

“I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.”

— Zhuangzi

“The only cure for grief is action.”

— George Henry Lewes

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.”

— Livy

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological category.”

— Theodor Adorno

“Everything will change. The only question is: growing up or decaying?”

— Nikki Giovanni

“When the legends die, the dreams end. There is no more greatness.”

— Tecumseh

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”

— Heraclitus

“If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress?”

— Paul Harvey

“The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.”

— Werner Herzog

“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”

— Tom Peters

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

— Thomas Paine

“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving 25 cars that got 1000 mpg.”

— Bill Gates

“But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”

— Edmund Burke

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”

— Pablo Picasso

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”

— Francis Bacon

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

— Napoleon Hill

“This is the patent age of new inventions; for killing bodies, and for saving souls, all propagated with the best intentions.”

— Lord Byron

“The wave of the future is coming, and there is no fighting it.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.”

— Quintilian

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

— John Muir

“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”

— Winston Churchill

“Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.”

— Walt Disney

“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”

— Paul Klee

“When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.”

— Elon Musk

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

— Napoleon Hill

“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”

— Oscar Wilde

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”

— Vince Lombardi

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the baroque is over.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“One of the reasons why Spider-Man is my favorite superhero is because we both undergo big changes in our lives.”

— Tom Holland

“Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“You can never plan the future by the past.”

— Edmund Burke

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.”

— John Florio

“I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse; I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

— Richard Bach

“Nothing endures but change.”

— Heraclitus

“There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.”

— Audre Lorde

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

— John Stuart Mill

“Now this is not the end; it is not even the beginning of the end; but it is perhaps the end of the beginning.”

— Winston Churchill

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

— Yogi Berra

“Life is made up of marble and mud.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The golden age is before us, not behind us.”

— William Shakespeare

“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.”

— Publilius Syrus

“Change alone is unchanging.”

— Heraclitus

“The world is new to us every morning. This is God's gift, and every man should believe he is reborn each day.”

— Baal Shem Tov

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”

— W. Edwards Deming

“We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.”

— Jacques-Yves Cousteau

“Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.”

— Mark Twain

“Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

“A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.”

— Claude Debussy

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”

— Frank Gehry

“Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.”

— Herodotus

“The sky is the limit; you never have the same experience twice.”

— Frank McCourt

“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”

— Oscar Wilde

“When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.”

— Ramakrishna

“Certainly travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on deep and permanent in the ideas of living.”

— Miriam Beard

“Mountains will go into labour and a silly little mouse will be born.”

— Horace

“What we have to do is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.”

— Hillary Clinton

“Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.”

— Donatella Versace

“There are no shortcuts in life, only those we imagine.”

— Frank Leahy

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light; so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.”

— Meister Eckhart

“All women become like their mothers; that is their tragedy. No man does; that's his.”

— Oscar Wilde

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

— Alan Turing

“When you forgive, you in no way change the past, but you sure do change the future.”

— Bernard Meltzer

“Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart; whoever wants it back has no brain.”

— Vladimir Putin

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Men are like wine; some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”

— Pope John XXIII

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”

— Saint Augustine

“We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.”

— Aretha Franklin

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“We are like chameleons; we take our hue and the color of our moral character from those who are around us.”

— John Locke

“I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.”

— Elon Musk

“I couldn't settle in Italy. It was like living in a foreign country.”

— Ian Rush

“Old things are always in good repute; present things in disfavor.”

— Tacitus

“It's not the destination that matters, it's the change of scene.”

— Brian Eno

“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

— Albert Einstein

“In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world.”

— Franz Kafka

“Mark Wahlberg's like, '150 pounds, I'm 250, lean. I look like Mark Wahlberg ate Mark Wahlberg.'”

— John Cena

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

“Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.”

— Warren Spahn

“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.”

— B. R. Ambedkar

“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.”

— Audre Lorde

“Californians invented the concept of life style; this alone warrants their doom.”

— Don DeLillo

“Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart; anyone who wants it restored has no brains.”

— Vladimir Putin

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

— Karl Marx

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.”

— Winston Churchill

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old; they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”

— George Eliot

“What's coming will come, and we'll just have to meet it when it does.”

— J.K. Rowling

“Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

“I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Advance and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”

— Khalil Gibran

“What the mass media offers is not popular art but entertainment, which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten and replaced by a new dish.”

— W.H. Auden

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

— Carl Rogers

“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters: one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”

— John F. Kennedy

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”

— Maya Angelou

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

— Peter Drucker

“Life's like a movie. Write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”

— Jim Henson

“We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”

— Marcel Proust

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”

— Denis Waitley

“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.”

— William S. Burroughs

“It is not easy to be a pioneer, but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.”

— Elizabeth Blackwell

“Change is inevitable; change is constant.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

— Lewis Carroll

“If you're old, don't try to change yourself; change your environment.”

— B.F. Skinner

“Without a possibility of change in meanings, human communication could not perform its present functions.”

— Kenneth L. Pike

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”

— Peter De Vries

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

— Franz Kafka

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

— Mother Teresa

“Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.”

— William Congreve

“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

— Lewis Carroll

“No great thing is created suddenly.”

— Epictetus

“If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

— Michael Jordan

“Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.”

— Heraclitus

“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”

— Aristotle

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

— Rumi

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”

— Maya Angelou

“We are not retreating; we are advancing in another direction.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“Unity can only be manifested by the binary; unity itself and the idea of unity are already two.”

— Buddha

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”

— Douglas Adams

“There is nothing funny about Halloween; this sarcastic festival reflects rather an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.”

— Jean Baudrillard

“Harmony is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.”

— Anonymous

“Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

— Frank Herbert

“There is no death, only a change of worlds.”

— Chief Seattle

“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”

— James Joyce

“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination; when it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I never regret anything because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.”

— Drew Barrymore

“Change brings opportunity.”

— Nido Qubein

“It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.”

— Bill Gates

“Every time I plant a seed, he say kill it before it grow; he say kill it before they grow.”

— Bob Marley

“In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.”

— Dalai Lama

“When I was a boy, the Dead Sea was only sick.”

— George Burns

“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.”

— Venerable Bede

“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.”

— Gerald Jampolsky

“Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.”

— Epictetus

“In the beginning, there was nothing which exploded.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Home is where one starts from.”

— T.S. Eliot

“In the world, there is nothing more submissive and weak than water; yet for attacking that which is hard and strong, nothing can surpass it.”

— Lao Tzu

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

— Lao Tzu

“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.”

— William Arthur Ward

“My only fear is the unknown.”

— David Blaine

“Where id was, there ego shall be.”

— Sigmund Freud

“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”

— Theodor Adorno

“I never paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”

— Frida Kahlo

“God make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.”

— Ruby Dee

“Our history is not our destiny.”

— Alan Cohen

“Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.”

— E. B. White

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”

— Denis Waitley

“The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

— C.S. Lewis

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

— Anaïs Nin

“The sea has never been friendly to man; at most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Without a revolutionary theory, there cannot be a revolutionary movement.”

— Vladimir Lenin

“Fear cannot be without hope, nor hope without fear.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.”

— H.G. Wells

“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”

— Marie Curie

“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

— John Wooden

“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”

— E.M. Forster

“Life is what we make it. Always has been. Always will be.”

— Grandma Moses

“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters: one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”

— John F. Kennedy

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

— Alan Kay

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“The remedy is worse than the disease.”

— Francis Bacon

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”

— Paul Theroux

“Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music to create harmony must investigate discord.”

— Plutarch

“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”

— Carl Jung

“All human evil comes from a single cause: man's inability to sit still in a room.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”

— Aldous Huxley

“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.”

— Mark Twain

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”

— George Eliot

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

— Epictetus

“The more we have, the less we own.”

— Meister Eckhart

“We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.”

— Buenaventura Durruti

“If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.”

— William James

“When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.”

— Marilyn Manson

“He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise.”

— William Blake

“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”

— Sigmund Freud

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

— Michelangelo

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering.”

— Ben Okri

“Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.”

— Wim Wenders

“Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.”

— Ian Rush

“When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”

— Jean-Luc Godard

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