Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Change

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

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

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

Eliot, George

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Spander, Art

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Burke, Edmund

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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.

Ryan, Nolan

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Murdock, Mike

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.