Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shaw, P.K.

Best Quotes about Change

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rohn, Jim

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Spencer, Herbert

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Ward, William A.

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Heraclitus

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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 happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.