Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Waitley, Denis

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

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

George, David Lloyd

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Lynn Hall

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Naisbitt, John

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Christina Baldwin

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Porter, Irene

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Bible

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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