Motivational Quotes

Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

- Byrd, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Change

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Petworth, John

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Eliot, George

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Andy Warhol

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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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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

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Virgil

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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