Motivational Quotes

Change

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Heraclitus

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

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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 fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Andy Warhol

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Petworth, John

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

Bible

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

Naisbitt, John

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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

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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

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan