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

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Burke, Edmund

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Paul, Jean

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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

11.

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

Heraclitus

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Rogers, Will

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Waitley, Denis

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

35.

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

Davis, William B.

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Andy Warhol

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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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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