Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Mohammed

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Shelton, Richard

Rowan, Carl

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

Hooker, Richard

10.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

11.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Andy Warhol

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Bailey, Pearl

17.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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

20.

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

21.

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

Shaw, P.K.

22.

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

Heraclitus

24.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

26.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

27.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

28.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Felltham, Owen

30.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

31.

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

Angelou, Maya

32.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

33.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

34.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Spencer, Herbert

39.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

40.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

41.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

44.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

45.

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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.