Motivational Quotes

Change

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Change

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

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Ruskin, John

The only people who like change are wet babies.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Virgil

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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

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

Heraclitus

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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Spander, Art

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Proust, Marcel

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Shelton, Richard

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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 made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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.