Motivational Quotes

Change

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

- Andy Warhol

Best Quotes about Change

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Tracy, Brian

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.