Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Best Quotes about Change

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Petworth, John

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

Lee, Bruce

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

10.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

11.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

15.

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

Kearney

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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 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

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

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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

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

Felltham, Owen

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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.

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

Harrison Ford

46.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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.

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