Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

- Buddha

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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.

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

Heraclitus

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

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Porter, Irene

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

Paz, Octavio

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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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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 starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Proust, Marcel

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A rut is a grave with no ends.