Quotes about change

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

McLaughlin, Mignon on change
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"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood."

Medawar, Sir Peter on change   

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

Menander of Athens on change   

"Fear of change perplexes monarchs."

Milton, John on change   

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

Mohammed on change
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"When things come to the worse, they generally mend."

Moodie, Susanna on change   

"People don't change. Only their costumes do."

Moorse, Gene on change
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"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily."

Murdock, Mike on change
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"We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society."

Naisbitt, John on change   

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

Newman, John Henry on change
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on change
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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. on change
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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 on change
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"Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence."

Paul, Jean on change
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"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two."

Paz, Octavio on change   

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

Peale, Norman Vincent on change
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"Change yourself and your work will seem different."

Peale, Norman Vincent on change   

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

Peters, Thomas J. on change
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"I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself."

Petworth, John on change
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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 on change   

"In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing."

Plutarch on change   

"Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside."

Pope, Alexander on change   

"Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed."

Porter, Irene on change
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"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me."

Prather, Hugh on change   

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

Proust, Marcel on change
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"Never swap horses crossing a stream."

Proverb, American on change   

"Don't change horses while crossing a stream."

Proverb, American on change   

"To change and change for the better are two different things"

Proverb, German on change
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"Change yourself, change your fortunes."

Proverb, Portuguese on change
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"A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will."

Proverb, Spanish on change
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"There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on change   

"The moment of change is the only poem."

Rich, Adrienne on change   

"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 on change   

"Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change."

Riley, Pat on change   

"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 on change
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"For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent."

Robbins, Anthony on change   

"I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright."

Robbins, Anthony on change   

"Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke."

Rogers, Will on change   

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

Rohn, Jim on change
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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 on change