Motivational Quotes

Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

- Moorse, Gene

Best Quotes about Change

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

Angelou, Maya

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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.

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.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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

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

Spander, Art

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

Kearney

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett