Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Change

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Davis, William B.

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

Paz, Octavio

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

Heraclitus

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Petworth, John

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford