Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Change

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Murdock, Mike

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Klee, Paul

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

32.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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.

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

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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 is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Depree, Max

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.