Motivational Quotes

Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

- Moorse, Gene

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Andy Warhol

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Harrison Ford

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Heraclitus

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

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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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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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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.