Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

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

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

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

Spander, Art

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Virgil

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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 permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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 is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Lynn Hall

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Bailey, Pearl

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Porter, Irene

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Naisbitt, John

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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