Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Change

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

13.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Bible

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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 powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

23.

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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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

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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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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Susan Rice

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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 difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les