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

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

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Andy Warhol

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Mohammed

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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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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Spander, Art

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Hooker, Richard

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Franklin, 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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.