Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Virgil

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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

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

Heraclitus

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Watts, Alan W.

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.