Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shaw, P.K.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

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

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

10.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

11.

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

Susan Rice

12.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

13.

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

Porter, Irene

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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 things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

24.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Carol Burnett

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

28.

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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

32.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

33.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Heraclitus

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

37.

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.

38.

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

Lynn Hall

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

40.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

41.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

42.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.