Motivational Quotes

Change

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Best Quotes about Change

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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

Ruskin, John

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

10.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

14.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

15.

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

16.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Kearney

18.

Constant change is here to stay.

19.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

20.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

21.

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

Carol Burnett

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Bailey, Pearl

25.

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

Heraclitus

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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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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

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

32.

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Buffett, Warren

34.

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

Susan Rice

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Petworth, John

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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.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Felltham, Owen

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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

46.

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

47.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

48.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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