Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

10.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

11.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

12.

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

Klee, Paul

13.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Dante Alighieri

17.

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

18.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

19.

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

Carol Burnett

20.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

21.

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

Eliot, George

22.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

25.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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.

27.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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

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

Rogers, Will

42.

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

43.

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

Lynn Hall

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Paul, Jean