Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Ramsay Clark

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Porter, Irene

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

Angelou, Maya

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Spander, Art

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

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Hooker, Richard

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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.

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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

Petworth, John

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lynn Hall

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha