Saturday, June 16, 2012

10 Favourite Quotes on Change




1. “The best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.” -Theodore Roosevelt


2. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.” –Barack Obama

3. “20 years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the one’s you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain

4. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” -Maria Robinson

5. “Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” -Henry van Dyke

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

7. The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. ~Henry Miller.

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

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

10. Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.


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