Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bryson, Lyman L.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Paul, Jean

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Udall, Mo

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

11.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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 fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

33.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Virgil

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

43.

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

Porter, Irene

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Petworth, John

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.