Motivational Quotes

Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

- Moorse, Gene

Best Quotes about Change

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Tilden, Bill

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Paz, Octavio

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

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Heraclitus

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Spander, Art

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

Hooker, Richard

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

A Course In Miracles

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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

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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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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Confucius

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Gerhart, Susan

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

46.

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

Susan Rice

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Tracy, Brian

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James