Motivational Quotes

Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Bailey, Pearl

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Virgil

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Carol Burnett

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.