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

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Klee, Paul

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Virgil

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

39.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

40.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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