Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Pope, Alexander

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

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Harrison Ford

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Waitley, Denis

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W. Somerset Maugham

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

27.

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

28.

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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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 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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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

35.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Mcgovern, William

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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.