Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Change

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Rogers, Will

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

Virgil

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Lynn Hall

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

32.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Angelou, Maya

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

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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

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Carol Burnett

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin