Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Change

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

George, David Lloyd

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

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

Depree, Max

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.

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

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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Shelton, Richard

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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

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

Lynn Hall

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Constant change is here to stay.

27.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Felltham, Owen

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne