Motivational Quotes

Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

- Serrity, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Change

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Menander of Athens

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Christina Baldwin

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Davis, William B.

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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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Paz, Octavio

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Dean, Jimmy

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Harrison Ford

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.