Motivational Quotes

Change

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

- Krutch, Joseph Wood

Best Quotes about Change

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

Heraclitus

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Rogers, Will

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

10.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

11.

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

Felltham, Owen

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Burke, Edmund

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Shaw, P.K.

24.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

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

30.

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

31.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

32.

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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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 hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.