Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Mohammed

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Depree, Max

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

Paul, Jean

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bible

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

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Churchill, Winston

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William