Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Rogers, Will

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

Felltham, Owen

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.

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

Hooker, Richard

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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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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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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 must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Mcgovern, William

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Bennett, Arnold