Motivational Quotes

Change

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Change

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

Andy Warhol

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

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

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

Lynn Hall

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

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Pope, Alexander

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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.

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Confucius

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

Christina Baldwin

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Tracy, Brian

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Susan Rice

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Spander, Art

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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