Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Davis, William B.

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

35.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck