Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Change

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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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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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

George, David Lloyd

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Carol Burnett

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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.

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

Petworth, John

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Davis, William B.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Herford, Oliver