Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

- Christina Baldwin

Best Quotes about Change

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Waitley, Denis

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

12.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

13.

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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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'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?

16.

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

Herford, Oliver

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

Klee, Paul

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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

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

George, David Lloyd

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

31.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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.

40.

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

Bible

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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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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

45.

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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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

47.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.