Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Best Quotes about Change

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

Brown, Les

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

Spander, Art

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Andy Warhol

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Heraclitus

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Proust, Marcel

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lee, Bruce

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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