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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Kearney

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

11.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

13.

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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Carol Burnett

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

25.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Andy Warhol

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Rogers, Will

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

38.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Paz, Octavio

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Walesa, Lech

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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

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.