Motivational Quotes

Change

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Constant change is here to stay.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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.

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

Lynn Hall

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Porter, Irene

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

Carol Burnett

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Tilden, Bill

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Real Live Preacher

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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

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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