Motivational Quotes

Change

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Change

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Harrison Ford

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

Depree, Max

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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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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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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