Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Tilden, Bill

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Freeman, James Dillet

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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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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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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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Christina Baldwin

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Paul, Jean

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American