Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bryson, Lyman L.

Best Quotes about Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Susan Rice

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

11.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Klee, Paul

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Bellin, Gita

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Proust, Marcel

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Depree, Max

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Lynn Hall

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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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

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

Andy Warhol

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.