Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Change

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Angelou, Maya

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Paz, Octavio

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Riley, Pat

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

Petworth, John

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Heraclitus

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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