Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Draper, John W.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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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

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas