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

Constant change is here to stay.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Churchill, Winston

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Rohn, Jim

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Hooker, Richard

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Rowan, Carl

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Lynn Hall

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bailey, Pearl

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