Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

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

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Spander, Art

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

Bryant, William C.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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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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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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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric