Capacity for Change Quotes

Our past is not our potential.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's the greatest strength.

We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

One of the best attributes of human beings is that they're adaptable; one of the worst attributes of human beings is they are adaptable. They adapt and start to tolerate abuses, they adapt to being involved themselves in abuses, they adapt to adversity and they continue on.

I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world -- constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice.

The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.