Motivational Quotes

Change

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

- Sikes, Rex Steven

Best Quotes about Change

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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Bailey, Pearl

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Christina Baldwin

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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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 true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bennett, Arnold

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo