Motivational Quotes

Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

- Lampkin, Alan

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Heraclitus

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

Real Live Preacher

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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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 not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Jackson, Jesse