Motivational Quotes

Change

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Jackson, Jesse

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pope, Alexander

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Petworth, John

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

Lynn Hall

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

George, David Lloyd

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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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.