Motivational Quotes

Change

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

- Meryl Streep

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Proust, Marcel

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Tilden, Bill

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Herford, Oliver

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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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