Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Davis, William B.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Buffett, Warren

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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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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

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Porter, Irene

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Felltham, Owen

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.