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

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

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

Mohammed

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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shaw, P.K.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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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

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

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rogers, Will

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Einstein, Albert

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Heraclitus

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan