Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Angelou, Maya

10.

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

11.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

13.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Christina Baldwin

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

18.

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

19.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

20.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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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.

24.

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

Shelton, Richard

25.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

27.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

28.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

29.

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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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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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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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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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Freeman, James Dillet