Motivational Quotes

Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

- Serrity, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Change

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

10.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

11.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

12.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

13.

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.

14.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

15.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

Tracy, Brian

19.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

20.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

21.

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

Rogers, Will

22.

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

23.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

25.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

26.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

27.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

28.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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

31.

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

Virgil

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

Paul, Jean

33.

Constant change is here to stay.

34.

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

Angelou, Maya

35.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

40.

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

Andy Warhol

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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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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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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

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Kempis, Thomas

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch