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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Heraclitus

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Rogers, Will

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lynn Hall

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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 is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Change alone is unchanging.