Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Susan Rice

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Sontag, Susan

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Confucius

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Bennett, Arnold

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Susan Rice

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lynn Hall

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

Porter, Irene

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Murdock, Mike

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Bailey, Pearl

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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