Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Ward, William A.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

10.

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

11.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

12.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

15.

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

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

Spander, Art

17.

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

Jackson, Jesse

18.

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

Rogers, Will

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Heraclitus

32.

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

Proust, Marcel

33.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

34.

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

Shaw, P.K.

35.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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 is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Susan Rice

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.