Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

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

Mcgovern, William

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Virgil

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bailey, Pearl

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proust, Marcel

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

12.

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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Socrates

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Kennedy, Robert F.