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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Depree, Max

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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.

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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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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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Carol Burnett

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

31.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Udall, Mo

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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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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

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

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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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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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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Porter, Irene

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel