Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Heraclitus

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Udall, Mo

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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 must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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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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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Tilden, Bill

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Kearney

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe