Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Lynn Hall

Best Quotes about Change

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

Paz, Octavio

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.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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?

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Draper, John W.

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

Spander, Art

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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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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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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Depree, Max

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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 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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Shelton, Richard

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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