Motivational Quotes

Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

- Serrity, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Change

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Carol Burnett

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

Bible

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

17.

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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Harrison Ford

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

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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 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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

Udall, Mo

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

Heraclitus

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Herford, Oliver

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tracy, Brian

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Kearney

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

Spander, Art

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas