Motivational Quotes

Change

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

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Best Quotes about Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Proust, Marcel

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Einstein, Albert

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Andy Warhol

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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

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

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius