Motivational Quotes

Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Hooker, Richard

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

10.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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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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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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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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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Carol Burnett

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Shelton, Richard

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Ramsay Clark

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara