Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Watts, Alan W.

Best Quotes about Change

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

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gerhart, Susan

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Kettering, Charles F.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Paul, Jean

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

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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.

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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

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

Lee, Bruce