Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Petworth, John

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

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

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Felltham, Owen

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat