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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Paz, Octavio

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Jackson, Jesse

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.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

11.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

22.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

23.

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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Constant change is here to stay.

25.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Proust, Marcel

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Waitley, Denis

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

41.

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

Lynn Hall

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.