Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Porter, Irene

Best Quotes about Change

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Draper, John W.

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

Brown, Les

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Tilden, Bill

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Bible

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heraclitus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe