Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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.

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Andy Warhol

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Petworth, John

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hooker, Richard

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Spander, Art

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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