Motivational Quotes

Change

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Change

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

Constant change is here to stay.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Riley, Pat

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

10.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

11.

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

Buffett, Warren

12.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

13.

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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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Davis, William B.

25.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

26.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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.

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Shelton, Richard

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

35.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

46.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene