Motivational Quotes

Change

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Change

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Rohn, Jim

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

12.

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

Virgil

13.

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

Lynn Hall

14.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

15.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

17.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

18.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

19.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

20.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

21.

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Paul, Jean

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

28.

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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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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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

33.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

36.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

41.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

42.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

48.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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