Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Change

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Petworth, John

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

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Paz, Octavio

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

36.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

38.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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 no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Astor, Lady Nancy