Quotes about change

"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 on change   

"One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right."

Ruskin, John on change   

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

Ruskin, John on change   

"All movements go too far."

Russell, Bertrand on change   

"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 on change   

"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 on change   

"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 on change   

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

Schoeder, Caroline on change
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"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on change   

"You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to."

Schuller, Robert H. on change
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"We need to change so we can remain the same."

Serrity, Dorothy on change
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"People do no change with the times, they change the times."

Shaw, P.K. on change
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"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!"

Sheehy, Gail on change
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"Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on change
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"Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on change   

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

Shelton, Richard on change
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"Change is not only likely, it's inevitable."

Sher, Barbara on change
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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 on change
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"Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you."

Sinetar, Marsha on change   

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

Socrates on change
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"Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe."

Sontag, Susan on change   

"The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment."

Spander, Art on 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 on change   

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on change   

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

Stevenson, Adlai E. on change
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"In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on change   

"A rolling stone can gather no moss."

Syrus, Publilius on change
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"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on change   

"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."

Thích Nhat Hanh on change
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"Things do not change, we do."

Thoreau, Henry David on change
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"Never change a winning game; always change a losing one."

Tilden, Bill on change
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"Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock."

Toffler, Alvin on change   

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change   

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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"Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor."

Tracy, Brian on change
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"Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like."

Udall, Mo on change   

"It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?"

Unknown, Source on change