Motivational Quotes

Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

- Moodie, Susanna

Best Quotes about Change

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Proust, Marcel

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

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Burke, Edmund

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

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Andy Warhol

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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 all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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 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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Davis, William B.

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Klee, Paul

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Petworth, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Felltham, Owen

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold