Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Branden, Nathaniel

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Tracy, Brian

10.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

11.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

13.

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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Shelton, Richard

16.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

17.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

18.

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

Socrates

19.

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

Shaw, P.K.

20.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Constant change is here to stay.

29.

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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

31.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Felltham, Owen

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

40.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

41.

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

Herford, Oliver

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold