Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Churchill, Winston

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

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Paul, Jean

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Carol Burnett

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

Tracy, Brian

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Bennett, Arnold

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy