Motivational Quotes

Change

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

- Alther, Lisa

Best Quotes about Change

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

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Franklin, Benjamin

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

11.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

13.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

14.

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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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 changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Christina Baldwin

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo