Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Change

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

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

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Klee, Paul

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Udall, Mo

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Heraclitus

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Bennett, Arnold

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Waitley, Denis

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Susan Rice

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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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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.