Change Quotes IV

CHANGE QUOTES IV

quotations about change

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

DAVID SEDARIS

Naked

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Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change
To something new, to something strange;
Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
To-morrow be to-day.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Kéramos

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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

JAMES BALDWIN

Partisan Review, Fall 1956

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The world's a scene of changes, and to be
Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.

ABRAHAM COWLEY

Inconstancy

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There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

JOHN LE CARRÉ

Smiley's People

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Every change is a menace to stability.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World

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My life changes all the time.
Things were different when you were mine.
You loved me yesterday.
Now these changes have come to stay.

ROY ORBISON

"Changes"

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When you're down and out, there seems no hope at all
But if you just believe there's no way we can fall
Well, well, well, well let us realize
Oh, that a change can only come
When we stand together as one, yeah, yeah, yeah

MICHAEL JACKSON & LIONEL RICHIE

"We Are the World"

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A man can always change things. That's what makes him different from the barnyard critters.

MA STONE

All That Money Can Buy

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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.

ELIZABETH LESSER

Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

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You don't have to love change to be successful, but you need to be willing to accept it. Change is a catalyst for personal growth. It gets you out of a rut, it gives you a fresh start, and it affords you an opportunity to reevaluate your direction. If you resist change, you're really resisting success. Learn flexibility, or learn to like living with your failures.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Motivated to Succeed

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Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations

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The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to change. Planned, controlled, beneficent change would continue to clear slums, sweep up the remains of empire, raise living and educational standards, tidy away--firmly but kindly--the last aboriginals who still raved about martial glory or the pride of wealth. Now, as it seems to me, change is set almost exclusively in the minor key, change seen overwhelmingly as loss.

NEAL ASCHERSON

"Chords of Identity in a Minor Key", Games with Shadows

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The sad thing is that, even though we know our lives aren't working in certain areas, we are still afraid to change. We are locked into our comfort zone, no matter how self-destructive it may be. Yet, the only way to get out of our comfort zone and to be free of our problems and limitations is to get uncomfortable.

ROBERT ANTHONY

Beyond Positive Thinking

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The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede

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It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting them be what they are.

DR. MEREDITH GREY

"With You I'm Born Again", Grey's Anatomy

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All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.