Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Carol Burnett

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Heraclitus

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

Riley, Pat

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Paul, Jean

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Buffett, Warren

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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 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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Constant change is here to stay.