Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ruskin, John

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

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.

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

Bible

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

14.

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

Shelton, Richard

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

16.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

19.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

20.

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

21.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Bellin, Gita

25.

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

Brown, Les

26.

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

Angelou, Maya

27.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

28.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

29.

Constant change is here to stay.

30.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

34.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

35.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

36.

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

Andy Warhol

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

38.

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

Petworth, John

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

43.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

45.

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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.