Motivational Quotes

Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Porter, Irene

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Rogers, Will

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Paul, Jean

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

34.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Shelton, Richard

39.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Depree, Max

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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.