Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gerhart, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

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

Susan Rice

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

Porter, Irene

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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.

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

Proust, Marcel

10.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

11.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

12.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

13.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

14.

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

15.

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

Dante Alighieri

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

19.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

25.

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 universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

27.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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

30.

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

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

Klee, Paul

34.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

40.

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

Murdock, Mike

41.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Waitley, Denis

43.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

44.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

45.

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

Ramsay Clark

46.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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

49.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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