Motivational Quotes

Change

Change alone is unchanging.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Rogers, Will

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Petworth, John

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Shaw, P.K.

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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 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

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

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

Mohammed

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid