Motivational Quotes

Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

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

Sontag, Susan

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Davis, William B.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Eliot, George

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

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius