Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

George, David Lloyd

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

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Nelson Mandela

10.

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

11.

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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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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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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Lynn Hall

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Klee, Paul

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

Naisbitt, John

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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

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.