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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Angelou, Maya

Constant change is here to stay.

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

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Herford, Oliver

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Shaw, P.K.

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Carol Burnett

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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

Davis, William B.

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Buffett, Warren

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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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James