Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Change

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Churchill, Winston

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

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Rogers, Will

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

Udall, Mo

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

18.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proust, Marcel

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Spander, Art

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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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

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Heraclitus

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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

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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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd