Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes but change.

- Zangwill, Israel

Best Quotes about Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Depree, Max

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

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.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Heraclitus

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Virgil

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Ruskin, John

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Susan Rice

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.