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

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Change in all things is sweet.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

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

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Nothing endures but change.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

There is nothing permanent except change.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

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

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.