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

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Rogers, Will

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Real Live Preacher

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Heraclitus

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Mohammed

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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

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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

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Hooker, Richard

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

George, David Lloyd

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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

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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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Menander of Athens

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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.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Heraclitus

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.