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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Klee, Paul

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

Schoeder, Caroline

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

10.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Paul, Jean

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Churchill, Winston

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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.

19.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

24.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Porter, Irene

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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