Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Burke, Edmund

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

A Course In Miracles