Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

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

Sontag, Susan

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Heraclitus

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Klee, Paul

31.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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 industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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 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 has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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