Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Draper, John W.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Lynn Hall

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

Gilcrest, Peter

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Porter, Irene

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Paul, Jean

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

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

Klee, Paul

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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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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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

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von