Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

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

Paul, Jean

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Constant change is here to stay.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Bailey, Pearl

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Heraclitus

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Bible

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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

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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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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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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Heraclitus

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.