Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

- Clark, Karen Kaiser

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Mcgovern, William

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 make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Carol Burnett

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Virgil

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Petworth, John

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.