Charles Dickens Quotes

Change begets change.

Reform is a verb …. The process of Reform is an ongoing, dynamic one, not a static process that has reformed and is finished becoming.

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

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

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

Reform that you may preserve.

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Change is strong, but habit is strong too; and you cannot change the old for new, like a garment.

There is always room for understanding towards those who see the old ways crumbling. And today I say simply this: It must come. It is right that it should come. And when it does, you will find that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders too.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world..

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

The time for change is now.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.