Emma Goldman Quotes

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.

I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians.

I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.

I'm not saying you have to keep up. But at the moment you choose to stop growing, your world will begin to shrink. You'll be able to communicate with fewer people, especially the young. You will only see reruns. You will not understand how to pay for things. The outside world will become a frightening and unpredictable place.

I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

The courts may be the most important instrument for social, economic, and political change.

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