Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Best Quotes about Change

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

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.

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

Porter, Irene

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Rohn, Jim

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Proust, Marcel

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Paul, Jean

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

Tilden, Bill

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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The moment of change is the only poem.