Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Andy Warhol

Best Quotes about Change

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Socrates

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

Garfield, Charles A.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

George, David Lloyd

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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Rogers, Will

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

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Virgil

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Bryant, William C.

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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 expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus