Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

- Asimov, Isaac

Best Quotes about 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.

Rowan, Carl

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Dante Alighieri

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Constant change is here to stay.

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Ward, William A.

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Asimov, Isaac

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.