Motivational Quotes

Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

- Byrd, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Herford, Oliver

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

10.

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

11.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

12.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

13.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

14.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

15.

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

Susan Rice

16.

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

Heraclitus

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

19.

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.

20.

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

Udall, Mo

21.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

24.

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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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Waitley, Denis

28.

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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

31.

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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

33.

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

Angelou, Maya

34.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

35.

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

Lynn Hall

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

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

38.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

39.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

43.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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 changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Rogers, Will

48.

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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Porter, Irene