Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Virgil

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lynn Hall

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

Lee, Bruce

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

32.

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

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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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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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

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

Herford, Oliver

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Klee, Paul