Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change, we do.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Change

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

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Spander, Art

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Bellin, Gita

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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