Motivational Quotes

Change

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Menander of Athens

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rogers, Will

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Tilden, Bill

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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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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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood