Motivational Quotes

Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

- Serrity, Dorothy

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

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

Brown, Les

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.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Menander of Athens

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Andy Warhol

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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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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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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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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

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

30.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ruskin, John

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lynn Hall

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Shelton, Richard