Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Andy Warhol

Best Quotes about Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Freeman, James Dillet

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Bailey, Pearl

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proust, Marcel

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tilden, Bill

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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?

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