Motivational Quotes

Change

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

- Lynn Hall

Best Quotes about Change

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Tilden, Bill

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

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

Depree, Max

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Carol Burnett

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Bailey, Pearl

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Felltham, Owen

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Klee, Paul

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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.

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Andy Warhol

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.