Motivational Quotes

Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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 universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Tracy, Brian

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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

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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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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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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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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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Virgil

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Garfield, Charles A.