Quotes about change

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on change   

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

Hooker, Richard on change
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"Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives."

Hunt, Trinidad on change
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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 on change   

"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 on change   

"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 on change
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"There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better."

Inge, Dean William R. on change
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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 on change   

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

Jackson, Jesse on change
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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 on change
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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 on change
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"The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions."

Kabbalah on change   

"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 on change   

"The more things change, the more they remain the same."

Karr, Alphonse on change   

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

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

Kempis, Thomas on change
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"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

Kennedy, John F. on change
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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. on change
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"Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies."

Kennedy, Robert F. on change
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"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."

Kettering, Charles F. on change
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"The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again."

Kingsley, Charles on change   

"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller."

Klee, Paul on change   

"The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February."

Krutch, Joseph Wood on 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 on change   

"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 on change   

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di on change   

"A rut is a grave with no ends."

Lampkin, Alan on change   

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

Lao-Tzu on change
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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 on change
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"All things must change to something new, to something strange."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on change   

"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 on change   

"One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on change
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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 on change   

"The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves."

Madwed, Sidney on change
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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 on change
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"Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past."

Marcinko, Richard on change
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"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

Maslow, Abraham H. on change
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"Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing."

Mazzini, Giuseppe on change   

"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. on change   

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

Mcgovern, William on change