Motivational Quotes

Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about 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

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

Andy Warhol

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

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

10.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

17.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Tracy, Brian

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

25.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

26.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Angelou, Maya

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Burke, Edmund