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 inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Bailey, Pearl

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Depree, Max

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

33.

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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Felltham, Owen

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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 change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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 the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.