Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Change

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

Rogers, Will

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

Susan Rice

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Kearney

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

19.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Klee, Paul

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

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Murdock, Mike

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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 not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Paul, Jean

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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?

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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 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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Freeman, James Dillet