Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Klee, Paul

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Petworth, John

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Eliot, George

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Heraclitus

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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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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

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Tilden, Bill