Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Ruskin, John

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

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Depree, Max

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

Confucius

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ward, William A.

22.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

33.

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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Naisbitt, John

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Buffett, Warren