Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Change

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Robbins, Anthony

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

10.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

11.

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

12.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

14.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Confucius

21.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

22.

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

Andy Warhol

23.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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

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

Ruskin, John

27.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

28.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

32.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Klee, Paul

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Petworth, John

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

43.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Susan Rice

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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.

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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