Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes but change.

- Zangwill, Israel

Best Quotes about Change

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Porter, Irene

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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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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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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Waitley, Denis

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.